Experts say a bizarre-looking fish with enormous teeth that a beachwalker discovered at Drakes Bay in Point Ryes National Seashore on April 5 is a lancetfish.
at UC Berkeley, added that while the fish do wash up on beaches around the world from time to time,"we know so little about this fish that we don’t really know when or where to expect them though."
A beachwalker came across a lancetfish at Drakes Bay in Point Reyes National Seashore on April 5, 2022.With a gaping fanged jaw, the species are notorious cannibals and feed voraciously on their own kind as well as other fish, shrimp, squid, and octopus, thesaid. They get food into their bodies quickly, but their stomachs are slow to digest.
"Their enormous teeth are likely used for biting their prey, rather than suction-feeding like most piscivores," Martin told SFGATE."Then they have the difficult task of removing their impaled prey and getting it down their throat somehow — imagine trying to eat a shish kebab underwater.
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