The oceans are rammed with odd , freakish - looking creatures . Take , for example,“volcano " jellyfish , theNew Zealand approximative skate(which wait like malefic incarnate ) , and pretty much anything from Russian deep - ocean fishermanRoman Fedortsov ’s Insta bill .
And then there’sthis . It is 15 centimeters ( 6 inches ) long , has dentition that look like icicles , and no eyes . It also bear an uncanny resemblance to theChestburster monsterin the 1979 Ridley Scott classicAlien .
This particular specimen was capture by goosefish Tee Hokin . She hauled the animal out of the Shady Camp sportfishing domain on the Mary River , a situation close to Kakadu National Park in Australia ’s Northern Territory .
" aboveboard the first thing I thought about was theAlienmovie with Sigourney Weaver and that thing that comes out of people ’s stomach , that ’s on the button what I thought , and that ’s what they describe it as when you look it up on the cyberspace , " she toldABC News , delineate the moment she first trip upon the gudgeon .
It did n’t move or wriggle , she echo . Instead , it look amazed – " like stealth mode " , shesaid . To get it off the bait and commit it back to the sea from whence it descend , Hokin and the other anglers had to rip it off with plyer .
" You ’d probably s * * * your drawers if it was bigger , " Hokincontinued .
" I was like what the hell is that ? ! "
A worm gudgeon ( Taenioides cirratus ) , as a matter of fact . Michael Hammer , a conservator of fishes from the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory ( MAGNT ) , enounce it could even be an entirely raw metal money of worm goby , though that would have to be confirm with an tenner - ray .
Headded , MAGNT is presently overseeing a citizen science projection to learn more about this inscrutable animal , asking people who cross paths with a worm gudgeon to get in touch .
Worm gobiesare mud - lie in fish that can be found lurking in coastal waters , estuaries , and river and eat on crustaceans and other invertebrate . But for all its beastly looks , Hammer says it is very rarely unsafe .
Although he did tally this caveat : " they do grow up to 50 centimetre in duration , so once they are that large they could give you a moment of a bite . "
[ H / T : ABC News ]
