(Photo: CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT/AFP via Getty Images)Ī deep-sea anglerfish is displayed for the 'Ocean' exhibition in Paris at the National Museum of Natural History (Museum d'Histoire Naturelle). These fish have needle-sharp teeth pointing inward, and according to the website, some male footballfish attaches themselves to females as sexual parasites, losing their internal organs, as well as their eyes except for testes.ĪLSO READ: Omnivorous Fish With Human-Like Teeth Reportedly Reeled in North Carolina: Is This Real or Fake? A closer look showed what they found was a fish living in the Pacific Ocean known as a Pacific footballfish at depths between 2,000 and 3,300 feet, the California Academy of Sciences reported. It's important to reflect on how much is still to be learned from our wonderful ocean," Crystal Cove State Park write in their Facebook post.A man recently discovered something on a San Diego beach, initially thinking he saw a jellyfish but later realized he spotted what reports have described as a "sea monster."Īccording to a Wild 94.9 report, this rare scary-looking fish is identified as "The Alnglerfish," which, through what is shown on KiloFact's YouTube video below, viewers will discover some interesting and terrifying facts about this.Ī KGTV report said on November 13 Jay Bailer was walking on a Black's Beach when he saw the fish. "Seeing this strange and fascinating fish is a testament to the diversity of marine life lurking below the water's surface in California's MPAs and as scientists continue to learn more about these deep-sea creatures. None are in pristine condition like the one recently washed ashore, John Ugoretz of the California Department of Fish and Game explains to the Guardian's Gabrielle Canon. The museum already has three others anglerfish in their collection, but only one is from California. California State Park officials connected with Los Angeles County's Natural History Museum in hopes that the fish can be added to their collection of ocean species. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife took the Pacific footballfish while it's sorted out where the fish will go, reports Samantha Lock for Newsweek. How the anglerfish ended up washing ashore on the California beach is unknown. Males are "sexual parasites" that will latch onto a female and eventually fuse until there is nothing left of their bodies except their testes for reproduction. Females can also reach a maximum size of 24 inches, while males grow only to be one inch long, Crystal Cove State Park officials explain in a Facebook post. Only female footballfish have the long bioluminescent appendage used to lure other fish toward its mouth. The esca gets its glow from tiny bacteria called Photobacterium, which live within the pores of the anglerfish's esca.īased on the size of the footballfish and the protruding appendage on the top of its head, Crystal Cove State Park officials say the fish is female. To lure prey in the dark, the anglerfish uses an extended fin that resembles a fishing rod with a glowing bulb called an esca at the end. Encounters with other fish and prey are infrequent, so the footballfish evolved to feed on whatever fits in their 18-inch mouths. Light can't penetrate through the water at those depths, and these fish live in total darkness. The thing about this was that it was almost perfectly intact. "It happens when you're walking along-you find dead things here and there that just shouldn't be on the beach. "I don't know if he understood the implications of what he found," Jessica Roame, an education coordinator at Davey's Locker Sportfishing & Whale Watching, tells the Los Angeles Times. The species is one of more than 200 species of anglerfish on the planet found at depths of 3,000 feet, reports Amanda Jackson for CNN. Pinho for the Los Angeles Times.īeachgoer Ben Estes stumbled upon the rare find on the shores of Crystal Cove State Park's Marine Protected Area in Newport Beach. The sea creature was later identified as a female Pacific footballfish ( Himantolophus sagamius), reports Faith E. A rare deep-sea fish with teeth resembling tiny shards of glass, a football-shaped body and a long bioluminescent stalk on the top of its head washed ashore in California this week.
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