ocean has been found dead on the sunny shores of California, in a rare and stunning discovery that local park officials are celebrating on social media.The all-black monstrosity is an angler fish — a type of deep-sea predator with a bioluminescent lure that hangs in front of its mouth, which it uses to hypnotize prey in the near-total blackness of the deep ocean.
Disney fans might recognize the angler fish as the creature that nearly ate Dory in Pixar’s Finding Nemo. Massive, deep-sea ‘entity’ leaves ocean scientists ‘blown away’ This particular species is known as a Pacific football fish, and it’s typically found at depths of about 900 metres in the ocean, according to officials at Crystal Cove State Park in southern California.
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