In video: Bizarre mutant fish with pigeon head caught in China

Images of a bizarre fish sporting, what looks to be, the head of a pigeon is raising eyebrows online after it was caught in China.
Reeled in by a fisherman near the Chinese city of Guiyang, the creepy looking sea creature looks like a cross between a tuna and a city pigeon.

This bizarre fish with a bird-shaped head was caught in Guizhou Province, in China. Many believe it looks like a pigeon or a parrot, others argue it bears more resemblance to a dolphin.

However, the, so-called, pigeon head fish could have a scientific reason for its deformed looking appearance. According to a Chinese marine expert, the poor creature may have been deprived of oxygen.

The bizarre fish is believed to be a oddly shaped grass carp, with Guizhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences expert Yang Xing explaining that the species are known to undergo gene mutations.

“This phenomenon has been observed during the growth of fish. One of the causes is the damage of fish eggs during embryonic development; the second is a lack of oxygen causes the head to become deformed. It is a grass carp… but it looks a little weird,” Xing said.

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