“She’s basically a swimming head,” said a manager at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, about a recently acquired Pacific footballfish. The fish has been named, via a public Twitter poll, Spiny Babycakes.
One morning in May, Ben Estes, a retired Hollywood grip and a lifelong surf caster, was walking on the beach in Orange County when he came upon something weird. “It looked like a deflated black balloon that had thorns on it,” he said. “Its mouth had some teeth you could almost see through. They were like pins. They were crazy teeth.
The creature was a female Pacific footballfish, an exceedingly rare deep-sea anglerfish that lives thousands of feet underwater, in the midnight zone, and sports a bioluminescent lure that it uses to attract prey. Its close cousins are the seadevils ; more distantly, it’s related to the frogfish, the batfish, and the sea toad.
Estes’s find went to the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, where she has been named, via a public Twitter poll, Spiny Babycakes. Last week, Bill Ludt, the ichthyology collection’s curator, and Todd Clardy, its manager, welcomed a visitor to the room where the museum’s three million fish specimens are stored.
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