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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 anglerfish found around the world (perhaps best known as.
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image captionThere are scores of species of anglerfish. File image
A Pacific football fish, a spooky looking creature similar to that featured in the film Finding Nemo, has washed up on a beach in California.
It s a species of anglerfish that somehow found its way from ocean depths to the shores of Newport Beach.
They are known to lurk in waters up to 3,000 ft (914m) deep. To see an actual anglerfish intact is very rare and it is unknown how or why the fish ended up on the shore, the Crystal Cove State Park said. Their teeth, like pointed shards of glass, are transparent and their large mouth is capable of sucking up and swallowing prey the size of their own body, it added.