A huge, strange-looking fish washed up on a California beach. Scientists say it's a first
Tehran (KNA) - This is the extraordinary tale of how a massive, strange-looking fish wound up on a beach on the other side of the world from where it lives.
The seven-foot fish washed up at UC Santa Barbara's Coal Oil Point Reserve in Southern California last week. Researchers first thought it was a similar and more common species of sunfish -- until someone posted photos on a nature site and experts weighed in. What transpired after that surprised researchers from California to Australia and New Zealand. It turned out to be a species never seen before in North America. It's called the hoodwinker sunfish. "When the clear pictures came through, I thought there was no doubt. This is totally a hoodwinker," said Marianne Nyegaard, a marine scientist who discovered the species in 2017. "I couldn't believe it. I nearly fell out of my chair." Source: CNN