
In July, a type of triggerfish with plump lips and teeth made the rounds on social media.ĭid you find this article interesting? Watch this whale shark playfully pretend to “eat” a tourist during a photoshoot. This isn’t the first time a fish with human features garnered attention. And that’s honestly, completely understandable. It would explain the horrifying expression, pollicaris bury their heads in the sand with their mouths open to catch tiny fish in it.Īs for Shookul, he gave the fish to the wildlife center fearing it could bring him bad luck. The name piranha comes from a combination of Tupi words, pira and nya, which, together, mean biting fish. Pirhana are tropical freshwater fish found in the Amazon and other rivers in South America. They believe it could be a pollicaris fish. Piranha Probably the best known fish with big lips is the piranha, one of several related species in the Serrasalmidae family. It was so weird.”Ī local marine center visited Shookul to examine the fish. I did not dare to cook it for myself or anybody else. Nobody knew what this creature was in our village, including the elders. The fish’s body was shorter than it should have been and it had big lips but no teeth. “It was looking at me and it had a face like an ugly, frowning human. “I almost threw everything back into the water when I saw the scary fish,” Shookul told Newsflare. Shookul said it was dead by the time he had returned to shore. The fish weighed 2.7 kilograms and was 42 centimeters long.


To make matters even creepier, the creature appeared to have a shocked expression after it was captured. An unusual fish with a human-like face was captured in Thailand.įisherman Prasert Shookul caught the unidentified pale fish, which had massive human-like lips and bulging blue eyes.
