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Huge-eyed fish are mysteriously washed ashore
At over a meter long, they are among the largest fish in the deep sea. However, the lancefish had been washing up on the west coast of the United States for a few days, which baffled scientists.
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Lancefish look like they came from prehistoric times. Its features include overlapping fangs, huge eyes, a sail-like fin, and a long, slippery body.
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Its generic scientific name, Alepisaurus, means “scaleless lizard.” Lancefish is a scaleless fish with smooth, porous skin along the lateral line.
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With a length of more than 1 meter, pikes are among the largest fish that live in the deep sea.
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Lancefish live primarily in tropical and subtropical waters, but also migrate to subarctic regions such as the Bering Sea in Alaska to feed.
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Numerous lancelets washed up on the west coast of the United States.
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The fish lives mostly in tropical and subtropical waters at depths of more than one and a half kilometers.
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It happens from time to time that they appear north, which is why they are washed away, but this is not clear.
Many large-mouthed, huge-eyed fish have washed up on the West Coast of the United States, usually making their homes more than a mile below the surface. Oregon authorities said the scaleless spearfish was discovered between Nehalem and Bandon, about 100 miles north of the California border. Anyone who finds more specimens should take pictures and report it to the Fisheries and Wildlife Authorities.
Miranda Crowell reported that she found one of the fish on a Lincoln City beach last week. Its length was more than a meter Apparently just washed. At first she thought it was a barracuda, but then she took a closer look. “I’ve never seen anything like this on the beach,” she said.
Lancefish live in tropical and subtropical waters
Lancefish live in tropical and subtropical waters It reaches two meters in length. They have a slender body and a sail-like dorsal fin. They sometimes appear to the north, said Ben Vrabel of the University of California, San Diego Oceanographic Institution.
Reports about it are already in the nineteenth century. They have even been seen in the Bering Sea off Alaska. Why this is still being researched. It is possible that the pike perch entered the shallow waters in search of prey or escaped from predators. Their appearance shows the diversity of life and “that there are things you can’t imagine – but they are out there”.
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