In the USA, photographs made by a fisherman as a keepsake with a catch made a splash: in New Jersey, Doug Cutler managed to catch an amazing "monster fish".
An American fishing spotted a huge eel in the water and started hunting it with a bow and arrow. Upon hitting the target and pulling the trophy out of the water, the fisherman was dumbfounded: the bleeding long sea creature with a huge mouth and conical teeth looked more like a figment of the imagination of the producers of science fiction films than a living creature.
The photo appeared on the social network Reddit and imgur, having already collected over a million views. A user who showed the Network the "monster fish" allegedly caught by his friend posted a few more photos in confirmation. On them, the fisherman is captured along with his catch: you can see the face of a man who has stuck an arrow into a sea creature.
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However, a "joint" photo of a fish and a fisherman is not as impressive as a close-up shot of a sea creature's teeth. NY Daily News reporters tracked down Doug Cutler, who is believed to be the killer of the strange sea creature, but the man did not answer the call.
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"The pictures do not allow for counting the number of breathing holes (seven on each side for sea lampreys), but if only the size is taken into account, it must be a sea lamprey," - told NY Daily News in the New York Department of Environmental Conservation. Wednesday.
However, there are doubts about this: lampreys usually grow up to 90 cm in length, and this creature gives the impression of a very large individual of this species. However, as the newspaper notes, in recent years, sea lampreys began to appear more and more often in the waters of New Jersey, as too old dams were dismantled on the rivers.
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