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Rarely-spotted football fish, which lives thousands of feet deep in the ocean, washes up on California beach
CBS NEWS ^ | MAY 12, 2021 | SOPHIE LEWIS

Posted on 05/12/2021 5:50:04 AM PDT by deport

A beachgoer was shocked to discover a rarely-spotted fish, with a monstrous-looking body shaped like a football, washed up at a California beach last week.

Crystal Cove State Park shared pictures of the fish, which is completely black and has extremely sharp, pointy teeth, on social media on Monday. It said the creature is most likely a female Pacific Football Fish, one of more than 200 species of anglerfish around the world, typically found thousands of feet deep in the ocean.

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TOPICS: Education; History; Science
KEYWORDS: california; fish
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According to the park, female football fish can grow up to 24 inches long, but males only grow to be about an inch long — their sole purpose is to help females reproduce.
1 posted on 05/12/2021 5:50:04 AM PDT by deport
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2 posted on 05/12/2021 5:51:37 AM PDT by deport ( )
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To: deport

Man hands?


3 posted on 05/12/2021 5:53:54 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (GMO opponents who took the covid jab are now GMOs themselves.)
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Owwwww, my balls!


4 posted on 05/12/2021 5:53:54 AM PDT by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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If it’s deflated, Tom Brady f’d with it.


5 posted on 05/12/2021 5:54:32 AM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: deport

That is one ugly fish.

And Sophie Lewis is one awful writer. Yipes!


6 posted on 05/12/2021 5:58:00 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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TOUCHDOWN!................................


7 posted on 05/12/2021 5:59:19 AM PDT by Red Badger (Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven. That's why they call it Heaven.....................)
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Cool fish. Sad for the poor males. 1 inch? And she’s about 24 inches with a cool tail? Now there’s an odd looking mating video—football fish porn lol.


8 posted on 05/12/2021 6:01:03 AM PDT by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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To: dsrtsage

“Idiocracy”,
It’s True,It’s TRUE!
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Looks like that
Angler Fish.


9 posted on 05/12/2021 6:01:15 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (Be Still and Know that I Am God. Rev 19)
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To: JonPreston

10 posted on 05/12/2021 6:01:21 AM PDT by Red Badger (Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven. That's why they call it Heaven.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Good one!!


11 posted on 05/12/2021 6:01:27 AM PDT by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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To: Uncle Miltie

Man hands? Or Mooch hands? But I repeat myself.


12 posted on 05/12/2021 6:01:48 AM PDT by rfreedom4u ("You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas")
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To: deport
Also spotted:


13 posted on 05/12/2021 6:05:30 AM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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Nothing in the rules says a fish can’t play football.


14 posted on 05/12/2021 6:30:17 AM PDT by GreenLanternCorps (Hi! I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts! (TM) Atsk about franchise opportunities in your area.)
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That’s not her tail.


15 posted on 05/12/2021 6:31:46 AM PDT by dljordan (Slouching towards Woketopia)
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16 posted on 05/12/2021 6:34:02 AM PDT by GreenLanternCorps (Hi! I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts! (TM) Atsk about franchise opportunities in your area.)
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Ah, the Cuddly Puffer Fish, known for its ability use its eyebrows as independently moving tracking tools which mesmerize prey into submission.


17 posted on 05/12/2021 7:06:31 AM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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Holy cow! The one on the right is scary!!!


18 posted on 05/12/2021 7:11:32 AM PDT by sevinufnine
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Gonna need a marine biologist here. And a football coach.


19 posted on 05/12/2021 7:12:41 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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kill it with a football bat!


20 posted on 05/12/2021 7:20:55 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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