The coastal critter was dubbed the sheepshead fish for the way its mouth resembles the muzzle of a sheep, the BBC reports. Must look elsewhere,' wrote another user, per the Washington Post's Jennifer Hassan. 'I think grandpa lost his dentures, and this fish found them,' one Facebook user wrote. Photos of the catch shared to Facebook on August 3 prompted many comments from users astonished by the fish's set of jaws, reports Brandon Specktor for Live Science. The fish, also known as convict fish for their black and grey horizontally striped body and ability to steal bait, have large, beady black eyes and an uncanny grin that resembles a human smile. In July, a type of triggerfish with plump lips and teeth made the rounds on social media.ĭid you find this article interesting? Watch this whale shark playfully pretend to “eat” a tourist during a photoshoot.Last week, an angler casting a line off Jennette's Pier in Nags Head, North Carolina, caught a hefty and toothy nine-pound sheepshead fish ( Archosargus probatocephalus). This isn’t the first time a fish with human features garnered attention. And that’s honestly, completely understandable. It would explain the horrifying expression, pollicaris bury their heads in the sand with their mouths open to catch tiny fish in it.Īs for Shookul, he gave the fish to the wildlife center fearing it could bring him bad luck. They believe it could be a pollicaris fish. It was so weird.”Ī local marine center visited Shookul to examine the fish. I did not dare to cook it for myself or anybody else. Nobody knew what this creature was in our village, including the elders. The fish’s body was shorter than it should have been and it had big lips but no teeth.

“It was looking at me and it had a face like an ugly, frowning human. “I almost threw everything back into the water when I saw the scary fish,” Shookul told Newsflare.

Shookul said it was dead by the time he had returned to shore. The fish weighed 2.7 kilograms and was 42 centimeters long. To make matters even creepier, the creature appeared to have a shocked expression after it was captured. An unusual fish with a human-like face was captured in Thailand.įisherman Prasert Shookul caught the unidentified pale fish, which had massive human-like lips and bulging blue eyes.

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