Strange, 7-foot-long cannibalistic fish with fangs that live in the deep sea are washing up on the West Coast and scientists don't know why

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A lancetfish face with fangs
Deep-sea lancetfish are known for partaking in cannibalism.

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Creepy photos reveal the microscopic world of parasitic creatures thriving on sandy beaches worldwide

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Thousands of species of nematodes live in your average handful of sand.

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These 14 ocean species have already gone extinct. A dozen others will probably disappear in our lifetime.

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People look at a 16-year-old critically endangered Hawksbill turtle after releasing it into the sea at the Sea Turtle Conservation Center east of Bangkok August 10, 2010.

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The coast of Southern California is becoming a hotspot for great white sharks

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Great White Shark, Carcharodon carcharias, USA, California, Pacific Ocean, Farallon Island, San Francisco Bay
The coast of Southern California has become a nursery hot spot for juvenile great white sharks.

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A burned-out tech worker quit her job at a gaming company to spend time filming ocean critters. It helped her reset.

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Daina Buchner holding a drone she uses to capture images of ocean animals.

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Never-before-seen video of the Titanic wreckage to be released nearly 40 years after its discovery

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The final resting place of the huge ocean liner is over 12,000 feet deep in the Atlantic Ocean.

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A 16-year-old girl killed in a shark attack was swimming in a river, not the ocean. Bull sharks — considered by some experts the most dangerous — are the rare species that swims in fresh water.

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Photo of a bull shark taken during a diving expedition in Tiger Beach, Bahamas.
Photo of a bull shark taken during a diving expedition in Tiger Beach, Bahamas.

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