Chinese Fisherman Catches Mysterious Creature From The Deep Sea

Some people insist it looks more like a dolphin or crocodile because of its long mouth. Others think it resembles a sturgeon.

Whatever it is, many were stumped when they saw images and a video on NetEase of the strange sea creature that a fisherman reeled in recently.

Mysterious sea creature

The unusually shaped fish looks somewhat cute – yet scary – to most who have never seen anything like it before. It was nabbed in the coastal waters of Zhoushan city in China’s Zhejiang province.

Mysterious sea creature

The video, which went viral, has caught the attention of experts from a Chinese Science journal. They reckon that it is most likely to be a beaked whale, as indicated by the two bumps on its lower jaw, reported Shanghaiist.

They said the whale species normally live in the deep sea, hence it is rarely spotted.

There were no reports of what happened to the fish after that. Knowing the Chinese penchant for trying exotic sea creatures, some might wonder whether it had ended up on the dining table of an expensive restaurant.

 

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