LOS ANGELES Confronted with a jet-black globular fish with razor-sharp teeth, prickly skin and a strange stalk protruding from its head, lifeguards at Swami’s Beach in Encinitas, Calif., immediately knew they had something extraordinary on their hands.
A surfer in Encinitas found the blob-like Pacific footballfish last week. It's the third such creature to wash up in California in the past year, including one reported last month at Black’s Beach.