Posted on 11/29/2021 11:32:39 AM PST by Red Badger
VIDEO AT LINK..................
Nov. 24 (UPI) -- A visitor to a San Diego beach snapped photos when he came across something unusual -- a deep sea-dwelling Pacific footballfish washed up on the sand.
Jay Beiler said he thought initially that the creature he spotted at Black's Beach, in the Torrey Pines area of San Diego, was a jellyfish.
"Then I went and looked at it a little more carefully, and some other people were gathered around it, too, and then I saw that it was this very unusual fish," Beiler told KNSD-TV.
Beiler estimated the creature was about a foot long.
"I have never seen anything quite like this before," Beiler said. "You know, I go to the beach fairly often, so I'm familiar with the territory, but I've never seen an organism that looked quite as fearsome as this."
Ben Frable, collection manager for the marine vertebrate collection at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, said the creature was a Pacific footballfish, a deep-sea dwelling species of anglerfish.
"This is one of the larger species of anglerfish, and it's only been seen a few times here in California, but it's found throughout the Pacific Ocean," Frable said.
He said the fish is only the second member of its species to be found on a San Diego beach after another was discovered in 2001.
Frable said researchers attempted to find the fish on Black's Beach, but it most likely was carried back out to sea by the tides before they could locate it.
"Because they're so uncommonly found, every single one of those provides valuable information, like data for studying the science of fishes, but also for learning more about our environment in California," Frable told KFMB-TV.
What’s the scientific name....BUTTUS UGLIEST?
That fish is extraordinarily ugly! Blue Ribbon ugly.
What is going on with that tail?
Is there some piece of cloth wrapped and tied around the tail like some kind of cask or wine bottle?
It looks like another fish that has been swallowed .................
Me too. I grew up in Mass. Now living in TN. I miss the ocean. I've always said, if it comes out of the ocean, I'll eat it.
BTW...trying to find a decent piece of swordfish here in TN is impossible. And I have been looking for 3 months now.
No wonder they’re rare. So ugly no self respecting male football fish would want to mate with that thing.
No female either.
Yes, swallowed and quickly expelled from the opposite entrance.
“ Black’s beach is a ‘clothing optional’ beach..............”
I remember the high school days of yore when we would drive from LA to ensenada on weekends for level 11 drunkathons. We stopped at blacks beach once along the way and learned a valuable lesson. People who would go voluntarily naked to a public place should never ever be naked even in a private place {ick}
Looks more like a defensive lineman...
If you blow it up, and look carefully, you will see it’s actually another, smaller football fish in the same tank.............
It’s Offensive!................
A Marine buddy and I went there once on our motorcycles.
We didn’t see what we thought we would see!..................
There are some really ugly fish that are delicious
God must have created that during the party following the 6th day of creation............”And on the 7th day He rested (with a hang over”).
Yes i was in a nude wedding there back in the day Came within one inch of being best man
It showed up in San Diego because it realized if it washed up in Los Angeles, USC and UCLA wouldn’t know what to do with it. LOL and RTR!
It’s Joe, putty and z dangling free stuff before eating prey..
Blacks Beach is one of the most beautiful and best beaches in San Diego. Sadly, normal people and their kids cannot go there because it has been taken over by naked homosexuals prancing around wearing nothing except leather dog collars. It is not legal but the local law enforcement does not enforce the law.
I’m from Boston and moved to TX about three years ago. Can’t find a whole clam to save your life.
Chicken
Everything tastes like chicken
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