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Scientists Discover Fanged Blackfish That Looks Like An ALIEN In Ocean Volcano

This is the weird and terrifying-looking FANGED fish that was found in a volcano at the bottom of the ocean.

Scientists from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Australia made the discovery of the blackfish - that is completely scaleless - a they explored the ocean off the coast of Australia.

It may look like the stuff of nightmares but the new species of fish is just over an inch long - and can sit neatly on your fingertip.

If that’s what you wanted to do, of course.

The blackfish wasn’t the only bizarre discovery - scientists also found an eel-like idiacanthidae and a chauliodontidae, which also sports some impressive sharp teeth.

Marine bioligist Professor Iain Suthers said these discoveries showed that young fish develop further out into the sea than first thought.

He said: “We had thought fish only developed in coastal estuaries, and that once larvae were swept out to sea that was end of them.

”But in fact, these eddies are nursery grounds for commercial fisheries along the east coast of Australia.”

Anyone still fancy a dip in the ocean?

Pictures courtesy of CSIRO News