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A fisherman has found a “dragon-like” fish off the coast of Tromsø in Norway, adding to the collection of strange creatures he’s pulled from the deep.
Roman Fedortsov, who works on commercial trawlers, was fishing in the Norwegian Sea when he came across the unusual-looking creature.
He took a picture of the fish, which is light pink in color with large eyes, wing-like shapes on the body and a long tail.
Sharing the image with his 646,000 followers on Instagram, Roman wrote, “Just a quote: ‘It’s one thing to hunt something without a name, but it’s quite another thing to find it’: GF Lovecraft.”
The post garnered more than 22,000 likes, with users stunned by the strange beast.
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One person said: “It looks a bit like a newborn dragon to me. lol.” [sic]
“God. The dragon. cool what! Who is that anyway? Another user commented.
Someone else said, “The chupacabra of the sea or the ocean?!?”
Roman Fedortsov has become a viral sensation with his Instagram posts featuring strange creatures he has caught (Image: Jam Press/Roman Fedortsov)
“What is that?” asked a confused user.
“I think he’s missing two more heads,” said another person.
Someone else wondered, “What’s the name of this miracle?”
Mr Fedortsov fishes in the shallow waters of the Barents Sea, which empties into the Arctic Ocean (Image: Jam Press/Roman Fedortsov) Read other related articles
“It is better to observe these creatures from afar. In fact, the depths of the sea are unknown,” commented another user.
The fish has been identified as a chimera, a cartilaginous fish also known as the “ghost shark.”
Roman Fedortsov has become a viral sensation with his Instagram posts featuring strange creatures he has captured.
Mr. Fedortsov fishes in the shallow Barents Sea, which empties into the Arctic Ocean.
These sea creatures are subjected to extremely high pressures at such depths and often have extraterrestrial characteristics (Image: Jam Press/Roman Fedortsov)
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Their nets will be dropped in an area known as the Twilight Zone, between 3,300 and 6,600 feet below the surface.
Less than 0.05% of this ecosystem has been explored by humans and has historically shed some alien species.
These sea creatures are subjected to extremely high pressure at such a depth and often have extraterrestrial features.
Strange sea creatures recently spotted included a sad-looking pale frogfish, a sandfish that appears to be walking on the ocean floor, and a small deep-sea dragonfish dubbed the semaphore’s loose jaw.
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