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Several scaleless fish with fanged jaws and huge eyes known as lancetfish have washed up along a roughly 200-mile stretch of Oregon coastline, and it’s unclear why.

Oregon State Parks asked beachgoers who see them to take photos and post them online, tagging the agency and the NOAA Fisheries West Coast region.

Lancetfish live mainly in tropical and subtropical waters but travel as far north as areas like Alaska’s Bering Sea to feed.

Several scaleless fish with fanged jaws and huge eyes that can be found more than a mile deep in the ocean have washed up along a roughly 200-mile (322-kilometer) stretch of Oregon coastline, and its unclear why, scientists and experts said.

Several scaleless fish with fanged jaws and huge eyes known as lancetfish have washed up along a roughly 200-mile stretch of Oregon coastline, and it’s unclear why

Within the last few weeks, several lancetfish have appeared on beaches from Nehalem, in northern Oregon, down to Bandon.

Freaky-looking fanged fishes found on Oregon beaches

Its unclear why the scaleless fish with fanged jaws and huge eyes, usually found more than a mile deep in the ocean, have washed up on the coastline.

Several scaleless fish with fanged jaws and huge eyes that can be found more than a mile deep in the ocean have washed up along a roughly 200-mile (322-kilometer) stretch of Oregon coastline, and it’s unclear why, scientists and experts said. Within the last few weeks, several lancetfish have appeared on beaches from Nehalem, in […]

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