The museum has only three specimens of this species of anglerfish in its collection of about 3 million fish, Ludt said, and only one is from California. A monstrous-looking fish normally found thousands of feet deep in the ocean washed up on an Orange County beach recently, a rare find that has delighted local marine life specialists.
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“It’s not something that comes up too often, especially in the condition that it’s in,” Ludt said. Last week, a 13-inch Pacific footballfish - a species of rare deep-sea anglerfish found across the Pacific Ocean - was found washed ashore by a woman on a stroll at Swami's Beach in Encinitas. British beachgoers were shocked to see a creepy sea creature washed up on the shore that looked like Demogorgons from the hit Netflix series Stranger Things. The anglerfish is a rare species, Ludt said, and he found it unusual for one to wash ashore. Still, the sight of the fish surprised some experts for its near-perfect condition. wash up on shore with five dead bodies of which she claimed were her friends who had been killed by a siren off shore. “I couldn’t speculate on how it ended up on the beach, but it is not entirely uncommon for deep-water species to occasionally do so,” Ugoretz wrote in an email. penis fish) washed up elsewhere.Īs of Monday morning, the fish was frozen at Crystal Cove State Park while state officials sorted out where it would ultimately be placed, according to John Ugoretz of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. In October, a commercial tuna boat found an unexpected creature in one of their netsa 10.5-foot-long, 9.5-foot-wide southern sunfish. California Penis fish and sea pickles: Weird creatures wash ashore amid Northern California stormsĪfter odd sea creatures washed ashore, the Monterey Bay Aquarium said they were sea pickles.
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