The fish have no scales their scientific name, Alepisaurus, translates as "scaleless lizard" and their skin is instead covered with pores. They can grow to be as long as 6.5 feet in length.

The scientific name for lancetfish is "Alepisaurus," which means "Scaleless Lizard." The Seaside Aquarium notes that these creatures tend to wash ashore on Oregon beaches during spring and summer.

Dr. Portner, who has been studying lancetfish for a decade, said the fish had been washing ashore “for at least 300 years and likely longer,” and like the Oregon officials, he said that “no ...

A scary-looking fish washed ashore on an Oregon beach. ... meaning "scaleless lizard." Adding to the lancetfish's prehistoric look are the fanged jaws, large eyes, sail-like fin, ...

Scientists have been left baffled after several cannibalistic “twilight zone” creatures washed up on Oregon’s beaches in recent weeks.

Prehistoric Monster Fish Found Washed Ashore On N.J. Beach. May 7, 2018 / 5:00 PM EDT / CBS New York OCEAN COUNTY, N.J. ... It looked like huge lizard head," she said.

It’s that time of the year in Oregon, when the large fanged, barricade-like longnose lancetfish, literally from the twilight zone, might wash ashore deader than a doornail in Oregon. Last ...

One of last summer’s strandings — a 7-foot-3-inch fish in Gearhart — proved to be a rare hoodwinker sunfish, Mola tecta. New ...

An "alien-like" creature washed up on a beach in Australia The creature washed ashore in Queensland last week and is said to have humanlike hands and a long lizard tail ...