This 7-foot-wide, weirdly shaped sunfish “with a constantly surprised look” has never before been seen in the U.S.
, meaning “hidden,” according to a National Geographic article about the discovery of the species.
The fish was first spotted in shallow water by Jessica Nielsen, a conservation specialist at the university’s Coal Oil Point Reserve who was doing research on the beach. Later, an intern found the fish dead on the shore.— an ocean sunfish common in the Santa Barbara Channel — researchers left the giant fish on the beach, to be recycled naturally.species is an open-water fish that swims in the depths of the Pacific Ocean.
The boy was impressed with the animal’s scales, which have small pointy spikes all over them, and its toothless, beak-like mouth. When a fellow scientist alerted Nyegaard that the California researchers might have a hoodwinker on their hands, she said she couldn’t believe it.Nyegaard suspected the Santa Barbara fish was the newspecies but was reluctant to make a final determination because the animal was found so far away from its natural habitat.
Regardless, it’s odd the fish ended up stranded on the beach, scientists said, adding that Nyegaard’s research will help determine what went wrong.
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