Mysterious sea creature draws 'alien' comparisons with its sharp teeth, spiky skin

FoxNews.com/Science ^ | Nov 29, 2018 | Jennifer Earl

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[BenLurkin]

[chief lee runamok]

""Every day [the ocean's] getting more and more destroyed.."

Soon, only salt laden deserts will exist where the world's oceans are today.

Within a decade is my informed guesstimate.

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Rough Skate (Zearaja nasutus)

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[lee martell]

If a Porcupine and an Underwater-Rosebush had a Baby....

It’s called a Rough Skate, says the article. It’s a male.
His ‘legs’ are not really legs, but are used to hang onto his female while mating.
Nature is so efficient!

[DannyTN]

The aliens are here for our water.

And our cow parts.

[Bob434]

my first thought was skate, or stingray of some kind- those teeth are likely for crushing clams and such grinding the shells possibly=- or perhaps to catch and hold slippery prey in darker waters maybe-

[b4its2late]

Another good reason not to swim in oceans.

[rdl6989]

I think you’re right.

[Red Badger]

And our drunk rednecks camping in the woods..................

[Bob434]

[[Another good reason not to swim in oceans.]]

Meh- just don’t wiggle your toes, you’ll be fine

[Jeff Chandler]

[Damifino]

Classic!

[DannyTN]

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I think you’re right.

It says in the excerpt that it was identified as a Skate, a sting-ray like fish.

"Malcolm Francis, a fisheries scientist and marine ecologist at National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), told the New Zealand Herald it's a New Zealand rough skate, also known as a Dipturus nasutus.

"They are called rough skate because they are very prickly ... it's quite common in Canterbury," Francis, who has been studying fish for more than 40 years, told the newspaper. "It's like flat shark, it has a skeleton made out of cartilage. They spend much of their time on the bottom."

[V_TWIN]

Yep dat da one. Just a little more dehydrated.

[fieldmarshaldj]

*ping*

[PLMerite]

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