Current:Home > InvestAlien-like creature discovered on Oregon beach-LoTradeCoin
Alien-like creature discovered on Oregon beach
View Date:2025-01-13 22:34:43
A rare deep-sea creature with alien-like feratures washed up on an Oregon beach's shore.
Local beachcombers found a deep-sea angler fish known as the Pacific football fish just south of Cannon Beach, Oregon, which is around an hour and a half drive northwest of Portland, said the Seaside Aquarium in a Facebook post on May 18.
The fish is rare, and according to the aquarium, only 31 species have been recorded worldwide.
"Living in complete darkness, at 2,000-3,300 feet (below the sea,) these fish are rarely seen," states its post.
The aquarium did not see the fish in person, but the person who found the fish sent photos of it to the aquarium, Keith Chandler, the aquarium's general manager, told USA TODAY.
"The person who found it didn't want to let us have it to preserve it," said Chandler.
Chandler said since the beach comber found the creature, they can do whatever they like with the rare fish.
More creature footage:Small 'species of concern' makes rare appearance on a national park trail camera
What is a Pacific football fish?
It's an angler fish, which may be familiar because a female angler fish was featured in Disney Pixar's 2003 movie "Finding Nemo," but it looks drastically different from the one found on the beach.
Angler fish are deep-sea creatures living in pitch-black darkness, and the aquarium states it's still unknown how they are able to do so.
"Little is known about (Pacific football fish's) life history but what is known is unusually fascinating," states the aquarium's post. " Like other angler fish, they use light that shines from a phosphorescent bulb on their forehead to attract prey"
Food is sparse in the deep waters where these odd fish live, so they're not selective about their cuisine and will eat anything "that can fit into their mouths."
According to the museum, females of the species actively hunt, but males are 10 times smaller than females and are more like parasites and "fuse" into the females of the species.
"They lose their eyes and internal organs, getting all their nutrients from their female partners," reads the aquarium's post. "In return, they provide females with a steady source of sperm."
veryGood! (455)
Related
- Pedro Pascal's Sister Lux Pascal Debuts Daring Slit on Red Carpet at Gladiator II Premiere
- Kansas City Chiefs Coach Andy Reid Shares How Taylor Swift Teased Travis Kelce When They Met
- Tyler Christopher, late 'General Hospital' star, died of alcohol-induced asphyxia
- Chicago to extend migrant shelter stay limits over concerns about long-term housing, employment
- Will Trump’s hush money conviction stand? A judge will rule on the president-elect’s immunity claim
- Europe’s economic blahs drag on with zero growth at the end of last year
- Russian figure skaters to get Olympic team bronze medals ahead of Canada despite Valieva DQ
- US Steel agrees to $42M in improvements and fines over air pollution violations after 2018 fire
- To Protect the Ozone Layer and Slow Global Warming, Fertilizers Must Be Deployed More Efficiently, UN Says
- Kishida says he’s determined to break Japan’s ruling party from its practice of money politics
Ranking
- In an AP interview, the next Los Angeles DA says he’ll go after low-level nonviolent crimes
- ICC prosecutor: There are grounds to believe Sudan’s warring sides are committing crimes in Darfur
- Live updates | UN aid agency serving Palestinians in Gaza faces more funding cuts amid Oct 7 claims
- Olivia Culpo Celebrates Fiancé Christian McCaffrey After Win Secures Spot in 2024 Super Bowl
- The Fate of Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager's Today Fourth Hour Revealed
- Teenager Valieva disqualified in Olympic doping case. Russians set to lose team gold to US
- Ashley Park recovers with Lily Collins after 'critical septic shock,' shares health update
- What a Jim Crow-era asylum can teach us about mental health today
Recommendation
-
Is the stock market open on Veterans Day? What to know ahead of the federal holiday
-
Police investigate the son of former Brazilian President Bolsonaro for alleged spying on opponents
-
What Vanessa Hudgens Thinks About Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s High School Musical Similarities
-
49ers will need more than ladybugs and luck to topple Chiefs in the Super Bowl
-
Shocked South Carolina woman walks into bathroom only to find python behind toilet
-
The Excerpt podcast: AI has been unleashed. Should we be concerned?
-
EU moves slowly toward using profits from frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine
-
Democratic Biden challenger Dean Phillips asks Wisconsin Supreme Court to put him on ballot