'Winged Fish With Evil Eyes' Surprises Nova Scotia Fisherman

What in the world! This creepy looking fish almost looks like a monster, with those wings and bizarre bright green neon eyes. This deep sea fish is ‘extremely rare’ to catch. It was caught off Nova Scotia by trawlers dragging the deep, according to cbc.ca this fish is most likely a long nose chimaera. It’s being reported that the fisherman did a double take when they caught sight of this thing. When this most unusual looking fish made it’s presence felt.

The fish died from pressure change, so they eventually toss it back in the water, unreal.

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Photo credits: Scott Tanner

A fishing trawler off the coast of Newfoundland recently hauled up a creature from the depths of the ocean that made even experienced fishermen do a double take. 

Scott Tanner was on board when crews pulled up the fish — which looks somewhat like a bird, with a long, pointy snout, bright neon green eyes, and ribbed fins that resemble feathered wings. 

“All the production stopped and everything so everybody could check it out,” he said. 

“Even the older guys that are 50, 60 years old, they’ve seen maybe one in their lifetime so they thought it was pretty neat and I snapped a couple pictures.” 

It wasn’t until Tanner got back home to Nova Scotia that he looked up what species the fish might be. He believes it is a longnose chimaera, a deepwater species rarely caught. ​

“There’s lots of other weird stuff that comes out [of the ocean] but that one definitely stood out … I don’t imagine many people have seen one,” Tanner told CBC News.

Greek word for mythic animal

The California Academy of Sciences says chimaeras are a group of cartilaginous fish that branched off from sharks nearly 400 million years ago.more here