Goblin shark in Australia, 18-foot oarfish and other odd fish
A goblin shark, a rare sea creature described as an ‘alien of the deep’ is found off Australia and delivered to the Australian Museum in Sydney on March 3, 2015. In May 2014, shrimpers fishing in the Gulf of Mexico pulled up an incredibly rare, almost prehistoric-looking goblin shark. Earlier, an 18-foot oarfish was found off Catalina Island in California. Here’s a look at the goblin shark, oarfish and other big and/or odd-looking fish.
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- Shrimpers fishing in the Gulf of Mexico caught an incredibly rare, almost prehistoric-looking goblin shark. It’s only the second sighting of such a beast in the Gulf. (Photo courtesy of Carl Moore & NOAA)
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- This undated picture released by the Australian Museum on March 3, 2015 shows the underside of a goblin shark’s long flattened snout covered with pores. A rare sea creature described as an “alien of the deep” has been found off Australia and delivered to a museum which on March 3 showed off its fleshy snout, nail-like teeth and flabby pink body. (AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM/AFP/Getty Images)
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- This undated picture released by the Australian Museum on March 3, 2015 shows the underside of a goblin shark’s long flattened snout covered with pores. A rare sea creature described as an “alien of the deep” has been found off Australia and delivered to a museum which on March 3 showed off its fleshy snout, nail-like teeth and flabby pink body. (AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM/AFP/Getty Images)
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- The crew of sailing school vessel Tole Mour and Catalina Island Marine Institute instructors hold an 18-foot-long oarfish that was found in the waters of Toyon Bay on Santa Catalina Island. (REUTERS/Catalina Island Marine Institute)
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- This is the head of an 18-foot-long oarfish that was found in the waters of Toyon Bay on Santa Catalina Island, California. Jeff Chace, program director at Catalina Island Marine Institute, said it took about 15 people to lug the serpent-like “leviathan” onto shore after a snorkeler spotted the carcass in about 20 feet of water. Oarfish are found in all temperate to tropical waters, but are rarely seen, dead or alive. (Cimi/Handout/AFP Photo)
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- A giant Ryukin with short tail fish is displayed during a news conference before the 2013 Taiwan International Aquarium Expo in Taipei on September 25, 2013. (Mandy Cheng / AFP/Getty Images)
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- Children play on the water lilies near the carcass of a 660-pound juvenile whale shark that washed ashore along a fishing village in Tanza town, Cavite province, west of Manila. (TED ALJIBE/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A resident looks at the carcass of the 660-pound juvenile whale shark washed ashore along a fishing village in Tanza town, Cavite province, west of Manila. (TED ALJIBE / AFP/Getty Images)
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- Fishermen clean their nets while the carcass of the 660-pound juvenile whale shark is seen after it washed ashore along a fishing village in Tanza town, Cavite province, west of Manila. (TED ALJIBE/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A worker at the Khaiseng Fish Farm displays a snakehead fish, which has been harvested and put on its way to a Singaporean dinner table, July 27, 2002, in Singapore. (AP Photo/Ed Wray, file)
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- A whale shark swims beneath service members and veterans as they are guided on a swim in the tank of the Georgia Aquarium on Thursday, May 1, 2008, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Amis)
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- This photo released by the University of Nevada-Reno, shows American biologist Zeb Hogan posing with a giant stingray in the Mekong River after it was captured by a Cambodian fisherman near Kratie, Cambodia in April 2008. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Zeb Hogan, University of Nevada-Reno)
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- Cambodian fishermen pose with a giant carp caught on the Tonle Sap River on Nov. 6, 2003, about 10 kilometers (6 miles) north of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Scientist Zeb Hogan is visiting 10 rivers worldwide looking for about 20 species of hulking fish, in order to find the biggest fish. (AP Photo/Andy Eames)
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- Tommy Robinson of Baltimore, winner of the 2004 American Carp Society “Big Fish Award” holds a 45lb, 9oz. Common carp caught at Town Lake in Austin Texas. (Photo courtesy of the American Carp Society)
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- This March 2007 photo released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Dr. Chris Wilson of NOAA’s Alaska Fisheries Science Center in Seattle, Wash., holding a 38-inch ruler up to a giant shortraker rockfish. The fish, according to NOAA, was caught in mid-March when the Kodiak Enterprise was trawling at about 350 fathoms in the Pribilof Canyon at night just south of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea. (AP Photo, NOAA Fisheries, Karna McKinney)
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- A restaurant owner named Pan shows off his prize fish, which he paid $75,000, in Zhanjiang, southern China’s Guangdong province. (AFP/Getty Images)
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- A protester bites a fish caught from the lake in front of the Justice Palace, during a demonstration by indigenous Indians against proposed constitutional amendment PEC 215, which amends the rules for demarcation of indigenous lands, in Brasilia. (REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino)
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- John Reedy holds a big fish. (Handout photo)
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- Dangling from an arrow, a large carp is hauled into the boat by Dave Malone while bow fishing with his father George Malone on the Back River in Essex. (GLENN FAWCETT / SUN STAFF)
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- Big, bigger and biggest are sizes of muskies Lake of the Woods anglers can expect to see – assuming such a fish is hooked. Early August cold fronts cooled muskie action on the big lake, though this 40-incher was fooled by Cole Anderson. (Dennis Anderson/Minneapolis Star Tribune)
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- A large fish, killed by the red tide, hangs as a reminder over a floating fish farm emptied by the toxic effects of the scourge in Hong Kong’s Lamma Island. (ROBYN BECK / AFP/Getty Images)
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- Two hundred boats carrying over 1,100 anglers took to the water to try to reel in the big one for their share of the prize money. Bud Cratty and son Mitch (pictured) of Severn, took first place with a 47.9-pound rockfish securing him $17,000 for their efforts. (Handout photo)
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- Cobia weighing as much as 15 pounds circle a tank. (Jed Kirschbaum/Baltimore Sun)
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- Lou Goodwin, Jr. displays a large King mackerel from Florida, one of many varieties of fish that ordinarily would be coming from fisheries affected by the oil spill. (Jed Kirschbaum, Baltimore Sun)
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- A large tarpon looks up for a fish treat from tourists lining a pier at Robbie’s of Islamorada, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
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- Greg Bernal, 47, right, and Janet Momphard, 47, talk with a well wisher as they pose for a picture with the 130 lb blue catfish Bernal pulled on the Missouri River near the Columbia Bottom Conservation area. (St. Louis Post Dispatch, Stephanie S. Cordle)
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- A diver feeds to a male whale shark “Hachibei” for the training of a feeding show at a large fish tank at Hakkeijima Sea Paradise aquarium in Yokohama, suburban Tokyo. (YOSHIKAZU TSUNO / AFP/Getty Images)
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- A nine-and-a-half-foot manta ray, which has a heart-shaped pattern on its back, swims in a large fish tank at the Aqua Stadium aquarium in Tokyo. (YOSHIKAZU TSUNO / AFP/Getty Images)
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- Two giant Ranchu fish are displayed during a news conference before the 2013 Taiwan International Aquarium Expo in Taipei. (Mandy Cheng / AFP/Getty Images)
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