An 18-inch deep sea Pacific footballfish washed ashore in Southern California.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/11/deep-sea-anglerfish-california-beach-finding-nemo
With its mouth agape – revealing a set of pointy black teeth – and a large protruding appendage surrounded by a series of tentacles, the sea creature resembled something out of a horror film. But, the 18in-wide fish, which somehow found its way from the depths of the Pacific to the shores of Newport Beach last Friday, is very real. It’s just a rare find.
One of the roughly 300 species of anglerfishfound around the world (perhaps best known as the one with fangs and the lightbulb-like antennae dangling from its head that appeared in Pixar’s Finding Nemo) the Pacific footballfish was spotted at Crystal Cove state park by a beachgoer, Ben Estes. The specimen was all the more surprising because of its perfectly preserved condition.
“I knew it was an unusual find,” Estes told the Guardian of his discovery. He described himself as a regular beachgoer and lifelong fisherman but said: “I have never seen a fish that looked like that before.”
“I don’t know if he understood the implications of what he found,” Jessica Roame, the education coordinator at Davey’s Locker Sportfishing & Whale Watching, told the Los Angeles Times of Estes’s discovery. The organization was among the first to post photos of the fish on Facebook and Twitter after Estes alerted park rangers. “It happens when you’re walking along – you find dead things here and there that just shouldn’t be on the beach,” she added. “The thing about this was that it was almost perfectly intact. Where did it come from that deep below?”
There aren’t yet a whole lot of answers to those questions, said John Ugoretz of the Californiadepartment of fish and game in an email. Researchers are just glad to get another glance at the species, which typically dwells in the dark underwater abysses about 3,000ft from the surface. They are rarely recovered from the depths.
After it was frozen, officials in the California state parks service were connected with the LA county Natural History Museum “in hopes that it can be transferred to their collection”, Ugoretz said. The museum has only three others in its collection but, Ugoretz added, just one is from California and none are in such good condition.
Even though they are rarely encountered, anglerfish are among the most known deep sea creatures. Their spiny teeth, though menacing, serve more to trap than to chomp their prey. With deep underbites prepared to receive any unfortunate creature lured close by their flashy phosphorescent bulbs – which glow underwater with the help of light-emitting bacteria – they sweep up other fish, squid, and crustaceans, that dwell at depths of 2,000-3,300ft, according to the California Academy of Sciences.
Or at least the females do. The males have evolved into “sexual parasites” and are much smaller in size. After fusing themselves to females, they lose all their internal organs – including their eyes – and are left with nothing but testes. Forever forged, the male provides sperm in exchange for nutrition.
Imagine just walking on the beach and you see this xenomorph shyt 
Those only stay at the bottom of the ocean... How the fukk did it get to the surface
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Send it back
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at the same time...how the heck did it wash up so in-tact? Scary ish
at the same time...how the heck did it wash up so in-tact? Scary ish
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That’s how the aliens will invade
From under the sea
From under the sea
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yall keep looking at space for aliens, meanwhile they in the ocean.
SOMETHING brought that fish out the deep sea
SOMETHING brought that fish out the deep sea
Yeah I use to have a strong desire to be a marine biologist before I discovered sports.
The anglerfish lives at very very deep depths that are unsafe for humans.
You even have fish that glow in the dark at those depths. There is so much that humans haven’t fully explored on our own planet.
The anglerfish lives at very very deep depths that are unsafe for humans.
You even have fish that glow in the dark at those depths. There is so much that humans haven’t fully explored on our own planet.
I heard he was looking for you
The males have evolved into “sexual parasites” and are much smaller in size. After fusing themselves to females, they lose all their internal organs – including their eyes – and are left with nothing but testes. Forever forged, the male provides sperm in exchange for nutrition.
Excuse me
Excuse me
The males have evolved into “sexual parasites” and are much smaller in size. After fusing themselves to females, they lose all their internal organs – including their eyes – and are left with nothing but testes. Forever forged, the male provides sperm in exchange for nutrition.
Excuse me
That is disturbing to read.