Some of the Strangest Things on Earth That Are Only Found in the Deep Ocean

There Are Seven Types of Monkfish

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There are seven different types of monkfish spread across the Arctic, Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans. There’s the American angler, the black bellied angler, the blackfin goosefish, the yellow goosefish, the angler, the short spine African angler, and the Devil anglerfish. So far, the largest one of its kind found was about 4.9 feet or 150 centimeters long.

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