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  • Alien of the deep: Fisherman shows off nightmarish creature dredged up off Russian coast

    02/28/2025 6:59:28 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 43 replies
    .dailymail.co.uk ^ | IRIAM KUEPPER
    A deep sea fisherman has unveiled his latest creepy capture – a nightmarish creature being likened to an alien. Sporting a large, bulbous body that resembles a brain, shrunken eyes and gaping mouth, the fish appears like something from another planet. But fisherman Roman Fedortsov plucked it from a northern part of the Pacific Ocean, sharing footage of the find with his 600,000 followers. He identified the beast as an Aptocyclus ventricosus – also known as the smooth lumpfish or smooth lumpsucker. The species of marine ray-finned fish is found in the deep sea and measures up to 44cm. While...
  • Creepy 'Smiling' Worm Pulled from Bottom of the Sea

    11/24/2018 6:21:47 AM PST · by ETL · 38 replies
    LiveScience.com ^ | Nov 21, 2018 | Yasemin Saplakoglu, Staff Writer
    Russian fisherman Roman Fedortsov has a habit of pulling ghoulish and bizarre creatures from the deep sea. And his recent trawl did not disappoint: Fedortsov recently captured an eerily "smiling" sea worm. In a video Fedortsov posted on Twitter last week, the creature's clown-smile turns creepy as it seemingly morphs inside out in time with an uncanny, high-pitched noise added by the fisherman. (This is not a noise the creature is making.) "If the creature could scream, it would scream like this," Fedortsov wrote in the post. ..." Bristle worms are so named because they have small bristles called chaetae...