The Football Fish

The football fish is famous as being the first deep-sea angler fish. The first sighting of this fish was caught in Greenland in 1883. This one was measured at 22-inches long – the biggest one found to date. Since no females of this species have ever been found bearing parasitic males, biologists assume they are fertilized by free-swimming mates.

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