Squishy Fish Found

What a weird-looking fish! It’s six feet (2 meters) long, has tiny teeth, a long tail, and it doesn’t have scales. Guy Marcovaldi captured video footage of the fish while working on the TAMAR project, which is involved in sea turtle conservation. The fish was found off of the shore of Brazil’s Bahia coast. It was dead and floating near the water’s surface.

At first the fish was reported as being a newly discovered species, but David Johnson, an ichthyologist with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, says that the fish probably belongs to a group of fish known as Jellynoses. Jellynoses are mysterious fish that live at the bottom of the ocean. Catch a glimpse of this large, gelatinous fish in this video!

Read more about this discovery on National Geographic News.

Check out pictures of more strange ocean dwellers on National Geographic Kids.

Comments

450030778
September 23, 2009, 10:52 pm

Wow this vid is cool………………………. Right : )
chelly
September 24, 2009, 5:22 pm

cool but wierd
TackleFootBallBaby
September 24, 2009, 5:50 pm

Who’s goin to eat tht thin. It’s hidious like some of my friends. But still its KEWL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
souryelloe
September 24, 2009, 10:32 pm

yuck!
PurpleAnimalLUV
September 25, 2009, 3:47 pm

welll uhmm, that’s definetly different. Cool though but very very weird. Hopefully when I grow up and I’m a Marine Biologist I’ll see at least one of those.
tonre1
September 26, 2009, 5:53 am

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HoneyDewMeLover
September 26, 2009, 11:49 am

That is creepy and sick! Especialy when the guy’s hands started to play withthe pink thing!
lalaunicorn1
September 26, 2009, 8:14 pm

wow that is a really weird fish but its AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
marineboy8991
September 28, 2009, 7:57 pm

That fish is awesome.I hope its a new species. When Im a marine biologist, I want to see one.
hulahaley
September 28, 2009, 9:20 pm

wow i love this event the best. its cool,slimy,weird,its all the ingredients to…..
AWSOME!!!!! people might think im weird for this comment because im a girl but its cool.
Lego Dude
September 29, 2009, 8:46 pm

That fish looks really cool.I can’t beleive people found it.
Lego Dude
September 29, 2009, 8:47 pm

HulaHaley you are not weird.
SDUB13
September 29, 2009, 10:09 pm

WOW THIS IS SO AWSOME =). HAHA WELL I THINK ITS 1 OF THE BEST FISH CAUSE IT LOOKS REALLY COOL. PEOPLE MIGHT THINK IM WEIRD, BUT THATS ME HAHA

SDUB13
syates
September 30, 2009, 6:46 pm

wow i wonder if that thing can sting..???? who know but i thought it was iteresting!!!
marineboy8991
October 1, 2009, 6:44 am

It can’t sting, syates, it is probably not related to the jellyfish at all.
here are reasons why:

Jellynose:
*has a brain and
a heart
*is intelligent

Jellyfish:
*has no brain,
blood or heart
*is little more than
concentrated sea water

Those are the immediate differences between a jellynose and a jellyfish
scienceluver
October 3, 2009, 1:10 pm

weird and cool
manateemaniac
October 3, 2009, 9:49 pm

Wow! It’s really lucky that it floated to the surface instead of sinking to the bottom and getting eaten by crabs & such!
won0906
October 4, 2009, 2:09 am

Wow, it is rally rally (really) different!
emshemie3
October 4, 2009, 1:34 pm

That`s quite a leviathon!
evy
October 5, 2009, 6:26 pm

the human view of the unknown is an cool thing. we see something knew to use and want to find out what it is. sometimes our curiosity fascinates me.
kinchofreed
October 7, 2009, 7:36 pm

I felt funny about it, it’s kinda weird, it was too funny for me. It was crazy funny because the fish was being pulled out of the water. -kincho

Also, the fish was dying. – freed
dolphin
October 26, 2009, 3:33 pm

So wierd?