Andrew Rose - an Australian fisherman - recently captured a ¡®weird-looking¡¯ rare fish with no eyes and sharp teeth and pictures of this creature have gone viral on social media. According to The Guardian, Rose was fishing in the Northern territory¡¯s Kakadu national park when he caught this 15 cm long fish.
¡°It looked prehistoric, it looked like something you see in the movies. The lure wasn't swimming right, I pulled it and it had this strange looking fish on it. We didn't know what it was. We took photos, took him off the hook and put him back in the water.¡± said Andrews.
While describing how the creature looked, he said that it looked something out of the 1979 movie Alien. Andrew¡¯s friend Tee Hokin told ABC News, ¡°It's like purpley-brown, it had a really weird head, but the body was like an eel and it didn't even move or wriggle; it was like stunned, like stealth mode.¡±
Before they thought of putting the fish back in water, Andrew took a couple of pictures and shared it on his official Facebook page, ¡®Has anyone caught one of these before?¡¯ he enquired.
The post soon received lots of comments as the netizens were left bamboozled after looking at the creature:
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As people made speculations, ABC News reported that the fish was identified as a ¡®rarely seen¡¯ worm goby.
Dr Michael Hammer, a curator of fishes from the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, told ABC News that "They have no eyes and live their life under the mud and are pretty rarely seen by people," he said. He also added by saying that they are not dangerous, "They still have very glass-like, small little teeth so a few people have said when they've caught them that they get a bite from them, but it's not dangerous."
What do you guys think? Is it a fish or an alien?