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A deep-sea creature with teeth like pointed shards of glass and a 'light-bulb' antennae dangling from its head was found dead on the shore of Oregon.

Visitors to Cannon Beach spotted the lifeless body of a midnight black fish in the white sands this month.

The Seaside Aquarium confirmed the sighting was an angler fish, called a Pacific football fish, which lives in complete darkness at 2,000 to 3,000 feet below the ocean’s surface.

This is only the 32nd time humans have laid eyes on the creature and it is believed to be the first time one has been found dead in Oregon.

‘While a handful of football fish have been recorded in New Zealand, Japan, Russia, Hawaii, Ecuador, Chile, and California this is the first one reported on the Oregon Coast to our knowledge,’ the aquarium shared in a Facebook post.

‘Little is known about their life history but what is known is unusually fascinating.’

Pacific Football fish are one of more than 200 species of anglerfish, a family of bony fish.

They possess a lifeless gaze through completely black eyes attached to the sides of their flat head.

What makes anglerfish unique is a dangling bioluminescent protrusion that juts from their face to hunt prey.