'Odd-looking' deep sea fish washes up on beach, surprising locals: 'Would not expect to run across'

An "odd-looking" deep-sea food precocious washed ashore connected an Oregon formation to the astonishment of a section aquarium.

The Seaside Aquarium successful Seaside, Oregon, published pictures of the dormant food successful an April 23 Facebook post. Experts identified the food arsenic a longnose lancetfish.

"Resembling a barracuda, this is 1 food you would not expect to tally crossed on the Oregon coast," the aquarium said. "Their beauteous ample eyes, crisp fang-like teeth, and serpent-like assemblage separate this food from astir others surviving successful the Pacific Northwest."

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The aquarium noted that small is known astir longnose lancetfish. 

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said the taxon "look similar they swam retired of prehistoric time."

The antithetic food was recovered connected an Oregon food successful April, according to the Seaside Aquarium. (Seaside Aquarium / Tiffany Boothe)

"Features see gaping fanged jaws, tremendous eyes, a sail-like fin, and a long, slithery body," the NOAA's website describes.

"Growing to much than 7 feet long, lancetfish are 1 of the largest deep-sea fish," the technological bureau adds. "These food aquatics to depths much than 1 mile beneath the oversea surface."

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At Seaside Aquarium, aquatic experts rapidly got to enactment and sliced the longnose lancetfish unfastened successful bid to analyse the contents of its stomach. The taxon is known for their "unique feeding habits," the aquarium said.

The longnose lancetfish resembles a barracuda, according to the Seaside Aquarium. (Seaside Aquarium / Tiffany Boothe)

"We besides cognize that they are not picky eaters, they are known to devour implicit 90 antithetic taxon of marine life, including each other, and unfortunately, are attracted to plastics," the aquarium said.

Pictures posted by the aquarium amusement what look to beryllium squids and small-sized food taken from the lancetfish's stomach. 

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The specimens were remarkably whole, showing that the longnose lancetfish didn't digest overmuch of its meals.

"They person mediocre digestion, truthful erstwhile you look astatine the contents of their stomachs you volition usually spot full food and different prey items," the Seaside Aquarium added successful its post. "By studying what the longnose lancetfish is eating scientists tin amended recognize however the marine nutrient web changes implicit clip (if astatine all)."

The fish's features see "gaping fanged jaws, tremendous eyes, a sail-like fin, and a long, slithery body," according to the NOAA. (Seaside Aquarium / Tiffany Boothe)

"It whitethorn besides assistance recognize changes successful the nutrient web brought connected by events similar El Nino oregon La Nina."

The aquarium added that, though unusual, longnose lancetfish are known to lavation up connected Oregon beaches during this clip of year.

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"For immoderate crushed successful the outpouring and summer, a fistful of these guys lavation ashore connected Oregon beaches," the station concluded. 

The contents of the longnose lancetfish yielded respective antithetic types of fish, galore of which were recovered whole. (Seaside Aquarium / Tiffany Boothe)

"The aquarium often gets a telephone erstwhile idiosyncratic comes crossed 1 of these odd-looking food wondering precisely what it is that they person found."

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Fox News Digital reached retired to the Seaside Aquarium for further comment.