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A dead moray eel washed ashore near Laguna Niguel over the weekend, creeping out beachgoers. An 'Alien'-like marine creature washed ashore near Laguna Niguel over the weekend Skip to main content
The giant oarfish, the largest bony fish in the world, was spotted floating — dead — just off San Diego, only the 20th such fish to wash up along the California coast since the early 1900s ...
In 2013, when two oarfish washed up onto Californian beaches, scientists said they may have died as a result of seismic activity under the seabed that occurs days or weeks before an earthquake.
The giant moray is carnivorous and nocturnal, hunting its prey within the reef. It is known to engage in cooperative hunting with the roving coral grouper ( Plectropomus pessuliferus ). [ 7 ] These two fish species are complementary hunters: While the eel hunts in the reef, it may scare prey up and out of the reef, leaving them to be eaten by ...
The giant leptocephalus (Coloconger giganteus) is a species of eel in the family Notacanthidae (spiny eels). [1] It was first described by Peter Henry John Castle in 1959. [ 2 ] [ a ] It is a marine , deep-water dwelling eel which is distributed worldwide.
The California moray (Gymnothorax mordax) is a moray eel of the family Muraenidae, found in the eastern Pacific from just north of Santa Barbara to Santa Maria Bay in Baja California. [2] They are the only species of moray eel found off California, and one of the few examples of a subtropical moray.
Based on collections of their small leptocephalus larvae, the American conger eel has been found to spawn in the southwestern Sargasso Sea, close to the spawning areas of the Atlantic freshwater eels. "Conger" or "conger eel" is sometimes included in the common names of species of the family Congridae, including members of this genus.
Some have speculated that the sightings could be spawned by giant eels swimming in the loch. Turns out, the math doesn’t work. He told The Telegraph that spotting a 3-foot eel would be a 1-in ...