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This is one 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.

This story isn't about thieves smuggling whales, but whales who are thieves! New footage catches sperm whales in the act of snatching fish from fishing lines. Scientists got the incredible shots from underwater cameras attached to fishing equipment. These smart whales were able to shake the fish from the line without injuring themselves. Watch a video of the fish heist below.



Learn more about the thieving whales on National Geographic News.

See pictures of different kinds of whales on National Geographic Kids.

How much do you know about blue whales? Quiz Your Noodle and find out.

Photographs courtesy Ralf Britz, Natural History Museum


Talk about a news bite! Those are real fangs you see on the fish picture above. Researchers at the London Natural History museum found them in an aquarium tank. They had been misidentified as an already known species, but instead they're an undiscovered species. The fish has been named Danionella dracula for its fearsome-looking fangs!

Photograph courtesy Zeb Hogan


National Geographic Emerging Explorer Zeb Hogan found what might be the world's largest freshwater giant stingray in Thailand this month! The giant river ray's body was an incredible 6.6 feet (2 meters) wide by 6.9 feet (2.1) meters long.

Photograph courtesy Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute


Fishermen and scientists have found pieces of the unusual Pacific barreleye fish in their nets since 1939, but the first photos of live, intact fish were released today. Their grayish, barrel-like fish eyes are upright tubes, which are protected by a transparent dome on the top of the head, similar to the cockpit of a fighter plane.

The largest freshwater fish in North America, the white sturgeon, seemed to be headed for extinction in the mid-1990s. Dozens of dead fish washed up on the riverbanks in British Columbia, Canada. Many people banded together to save the white sturgeon and it seems to have worked. Today their population is estimated to be about 50,000.

Read more about the white sturgeon rebound on National Geographic News.

Want more info on Zeb Hogan's Megafishes Project? Visit the gallery.