The angler fish washed ashore at the Crystal Cove State Park in California. (CNN)An unusual fish with teeth as sharp as glass and a body shaped like a football washed ashore on a California beach last week.
The black colored creature with it s gaping mouth laid on the sand on the shore of Crystal Cove State Park s Marine Protected Area in Laguna Beach last Friday. The park shared images of the fish on social media and identified it as being most likely the Pacific Football Fish. To see an actual angler fish intact is very rare and it is unknown how or why the fish ended up on the shore, reads the Facebook post.
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image captionThere are scores of species of anglerfish. File image
A Pacific football fish, a spooky looking creature similar to that featured in the film Finding Nemo, has washed up on a beach in California.
It s a species of anglerfish that somehow found its way from ocean depths to the shores of Newport Beach.
They are known to lurk in waters up to 3,000 ft (914m) deep. To see an actual anglerfish intact is very rare and it is unknown how or why the fish ended up on the shore, the Crystal Cove State Park said. Their teeth, like pointed shards of glass, are transparent and their large mouth is capable of sucking up and swallowing prey the size of their own body, it added.
An unusual fish with teeth as sharp as glass and a body shaped like a football washed ashore on a California beach last week.
The black colored creature wi