Last week in North Carolina visitors were startled to see a very strange and scary fish washed up on shore still alive. The fish was later identified as the Long-Snouted Lancetfish (Alepisaurus ferox). Scientists don't know too much about the Long-Snouted Lancetfish due to the fact that it lives in the bottom of the ocean. When these fish are born they are hermaphrodites and when they mature they change to one sex. These fish are also more lizard like then fish. They are born without scales and never grow them either. The record size ever recorded from these fish is 6 and a half feet long.
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/05/20/scary-fanged-cannibal-fish-washes-ashore-alive/
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