Mysterious ‘winged fish with evil eyes’ caught by Nova Scotia fishermen

Fishermen caught a weird fish in their net off the Newfoundland Coast ehixh has wings like a bird and creepy green eyes like something out of a horror movie.

Work on a fishing trawler off Newfoundland came to a halt when a mysterious and bizarre fish came up in the catch. CBC News wrote that it “looks somewhat like a bird, with a long, pointy snout, bright neon green eyes and ribbed fins that resemble feathered wings.”

The Daily Star, a tabloid in the U.K., called it a “winged fish with evil eyes.”

“All the production stopped and everything so everybody could check it out,” fisherman Scott Tanner told CBC News. “There’s lots of other weird stuff that comes out [of the ocean] but that one definitely stood out.”
The 58-foot trawler was on a 42-day trip fishing for cod and redfish in waters off the Grand Banks and St. Pierre and Miquelon when the unusual fish came up as by-catch.

The best guess from the article is that this is a Chimera. What says ATS? Chimera or something else?

The California Academy of Sciences says chimaeras are a group of cartilaginous fish that branched off from sharks nearly 400 million years ago …

The longnose variety is found off Nova Scotia and in various other parts of the Atlantic Ocean. They feed on shrimp and crabs and are harmless to humans …


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edit on 9-3-2016 by lostbook because: word add

Thanks for showing me something I've not heard about before.
Very interesting fish.

Looks like a deep sea shark of some kind to me. It does look familiar, and the eyes definitely look deep sea. It happens occasionally that someone will catch something from the deep out of its depth .

a reply to: lostbook

I agree that it a Chimera, it looks like others that I have seen.

I don't know if I'd say mysterious...

Dalhousie University biology professor Jeffrey Hutchings looked at the photo and told CBC News that it indeed looks like a long-nose chimaera (aka a knifenose chimaera), adding that they are quite uncommon, being found at depths ranging from 660 to 6,560 feet.

Certainly cool! Thanks for sharing it with us. Weird looking bugger (not you, the fish).

He doesn't look evil, he looks sad.

a reply to: AugustusMasonicus

You meant eating, right?

I agree with ya, looks taaty!

Thats a face not even a mother could love....

a reply to: lostbook

Awww those eyes aren't evil. He's cute. The eyes.

The rest is a hideous abomination I never want to be in physical proximity to.

Interesting stuff certainly comes out of our oceans. What a mysterious place.

I'd it eat. I bet it takes like evil lol. MMM evil!

a reply to: lostbook

Is that real ????? is there a leaking nuclear power plant somewhere ? What is that ????

That looks like a fish that should be deep fried, rather than broiled.

originally posted by: surrender
a reply to: lostbook

Is that real ????? is there a leaking nuclear power plant somewhere ? What is that ????

Long-nosed chimaera. Branched off from sharks a long time ago. Here's plenty of google-fu'ed pictures for you:
Long-nosed chimaera/Google image search results

a reply to: Nyiah

OMG say what ? Where was I ? Thank you for posting that wow

WHaT in the WORLD ? That's the weirdest thing I ve ever seen

Lol this is better then scary movies FREAKY

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Jeeeeez

Wow, that's impressing. How often did you think they catch strange animal like this one? With all the fishing around the world, I'm sure there alot of strange looking fish catched!

a reply to: PersonneX

wow, that is only really ugly fish!!! those eyes!!! those are the makings of nightmares!!!!

It looks like a baby Cthulu

It is doubtless a Chimera, but I see others have figured this out already.

Several years ago some washed up after disasters, and people, willfully forgetting that life began in water, attributed the creatures to extraterrestrial sources. We live in the era of clickbait.

Rhinochimaeridae apparently.



Rhinochimaeridae

Looks sad, being out of the water will do that to a fish.

originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
a reply to: lostbook

I agree that it a Chimera, it looks like others that I have seen.

Are you freaking kidding me?!? Nothing like'em. I've shot thousands of them, they are very different.