Now it's not like many Fisher known for their good looks often emerging from the deep,
with bizarre bulging eyes, extreme underbites and weird spikes protruding from their heads.
But things get particularly creepy when one rears its head to show off what look a lot
like human teeth. As one recently did over in the United States, going viral online.
Photos of the strange catch were posted on the Facebook page for Jennette's Pier.
A fishing hotspot in Nags, Head North Carolina. The caption simply reads hashtag “big teeth
big times”. Indeed, the large fish can be seen gossiping at the camera
with its surprisingly strong set of Nashers in one photo, while another snap shows the sheer size of
the beast as it's held in both hands by someone. The post has since racked up 1200 reactions
and hundreds of shares along with hundreds of comments from weirded out social media users. One
wrote “that fish has better teeth than”. Another said “that's terrifying, tagging their friend”.
And other said “fish with people teeth” a fourth added, “I know people who would
love to have that many teeth, LOL” many people said they believed the fish is a sheep's head.
Although one person was still convinced its teeth were human. They said “it is called a
sheep's head, but those teeth are human so the pic is doctored”. According to the Charlotte observer,
the nine-pound fish was caught by a man called Nathan Martin who had been out fishing with his
twin brother on Monday, 2nd of August, when he found a fish with a mouth full of teeth.
Martin irregular at the pier who had gone out in the hopes of catching a sheep's head
told McClatchy news. “It's a very good fight when you're fighting on the line,
it's a really good catch and it tastes very good”. According to the North
Carolina department of environmental quality sheep's head fish, generally weigh around 5
to 15 pounds and are around 30 inches long. It's website says “sheep's head are greenish
gray with a laterally compressed body marked by five or six vertical dark bars on the sides.
They have prominent teeth with incisors, molars, and rounded grinders that enable them to crush
shellfish and sea urchins. They have strong, sharp spines on the dorsal and anal fins”. It adds of
their habitat, Sheep's head are found in saltwater and brackish coastal waters around jetties,
wharfs, pilings, shipwrecks, and other structures covered with barnacles, mussels, and oysters.
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Now, back to the story. Another fishermen catches fish
with human-like teeth in Florida. An anchor was left shocked after yanking a fish from the depths,
that appears to have a set of almost human teeth. It's a seriously weird fish. And once
you've seen it, you're unlikely to forget it. The strange creature was fished out of a spot
near to Melbourne in the U S state of Florida and fishermen, Paul lore was as
surprised as anyone by the unusual Nashers on it. The 33 year old said “it has a zebra
pattern of colouring and the body is more like a snapper type fish”, very compact, but meaty.
The teeth can only be described as human like teeth, but upon further inspection, you'll notice
they have rows of these teeth, like a shark. Most of them have two to three rows with very strong
bite power, not enough to take a finger, but enough to make you never go near the teeth again.
He added. “It's one of the weirdest fish I have encountered just based on the appearance”.
What he's actually stumbled across here is a sheep's head.
And they're actually not so unusual around the Gulf and Atlantic coast of the USA. Mr. Lore,
who's originally from Honolulu in Hawaii, explained the reasons why
the sheep's head has such humanoid champers. He said “they use these teeth to break barnacles,
clam shells and crab shells. They mainly consume crustaceans. So they need these types of teeth
to break them open. Then the shells come out of their gills, almost like a filter.
So they do not consume a lot of the shell. He continued the vicious, nicknamed “the poor
man's crab around my parts”. That's because they're easy to catch and they mainly eat
different types of crab and shrimp. So they taste like crab meat. They're very strong swimmers,
as soon as you hook them, they swim sideways with a lot of force,
so even a small one feels like a huge fish. The sheep's head start to grow their teeth
when they're only four and a half millimetres long and have their full set of choppers,
by the time they are 15 millimetres. Over the course of their life, they can grow to be 76
centimetres long. The Sheepshead are so well-known around that particular part of
the Eastern United States, that there is even a bay called Sheepshead Bay in New York city.
Don't worry about this one though, because after catching it Paul released it back into the wild.
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