This little monster, which reaches a length of 3 feet (44 lbs!), kills everything it comes across, and is even reported to kill people. Hailing from Southeast Asia, they can crawl across dry land and even live out of water for four days. Hopefully, this specimen represents a single fish that was released by an aquarist who lost interest in keeping it as a pet. Hopefully, it wasn't able spawn and produce more hell fish.
In the meantime, for all you Brits, keep your eyes open, swim at your own risk. Watch where you step.
Thanks for the article, Rachel, Jade, and Ida.
Photo source: The Sun
Crap, thats my trip to the lake district cancelled!
ReplyDeletethat is one mean looking fish
ReplyDeleteThat is a scary, scary animal. That deserves a healthy dose of fear, unlike most ugly critters.
ReplyDeleteWow, I would not go anywhere near a tank containing one of those. It looks like it could kill you just by glaring.
ReplyDeleteOk, that's put me off fish even though it's Lent!
ReplyDeleteWhy does any animal need to be that ugly? Really?
ReplyDeleteWasn't there fear a few years back that some of these fish were found in a waterway in New Jersey?
ReplyDeleteIt was in Maryland, or at least near DC, and the authorities tried their damnedest to root them out.
ReplyDeleteAnd wasn't there a SNAKEHEAD TERROR movie on the Sci Fi Channel?
does it remind anyone else of a baddie in Super Mario Brothers?
ReplyDeleteThis fish hates our freedom!
ReplyDeleteWikipedia states that the article that this photo is from was a hoax. The fish was dead. Snakeheads are a warm water fish and as such would have some trouble surviving in a cold Lincolnshire river.
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