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Species : Genres : Fish: Other:   Alien Fish Caught in Australia An Australian fisherman, who captured a rare, unsettling fish that resembled a creature from the sci-fi film Alien, says it was “not all that exciting” and he caught it with a beer in his hand. Andrew Rose was fishing in the Northern Territory’s Kakadu national park when he snagged a 15cm-long worm goby – a rare, mud-dwelling fish with no eyes, a bony head and sharp teeth. “It looked prehistoric,” Rose told Guardian Australia. “It looked like something you see in the movies. The lure wasn’t swimming right, I pulled it and it had this strange looking fish on it. We didn’t know what it was. We took photos, took him off the hook and put him back in the water.” On social media, many compared the fish to a Xenomorph, a monstrous alien species from the 1979 sci-fi horror film Alien, and its sequels. Rose’s fellow angler and friend, Tee Hokin, told ABC News: “The first thing I thought about was the Alien movie with Sigourne...

A coral outcrop on the  Great Barrier Reef ,  Australia Corals  are  marine invertebrates  within the  class   Anthozoa  of the  phylum   Cnidaria . They typically live in compact  colonies  of many identical individual  polyps . Corals species include the important  reef  builders that inhabit tropical oceans and secrete  calcium carbonate  to form a hard skeleton. A coral "group" is a colony of myriad  genetically identical  polyps. Each polyp is a sac-like animal typically only a few millimeters in diameter and a few centimeters in length. A set of  tentacles  surround a central mouth opening. An  exoskeleton  is excreted near the base.  Over many generations, the colony thus creates a large skeleton characteristic of the species. Individual heads grow by  asexual reproduction  of polyps. Corals also breed sexually by  spawning : polyps of the same sp...