Ammon News - A Russian fisherman has pulled a strange-looking creature out of the murky depths while deep-sea trawling in the North Pacific.

In footage posted by Roman Fedortsov to his popular Instagram account, the creature sits perched on the rusting, weatherworn railing of a fishing trawler, bloated, slimy and apparently quite dead.

For many viewers of the video, the creature evokes images of all manner of fictitious alien creatures including, but not limited to, the Martians from Mars Attacks! Krang from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and even H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulu.

“Kill it and burn it and don’t ever catch one of those again,” said one fearful user.

“Yeah, aliens are real,” concluded another.

Fear not though, for the creature is not an eldritch horror, nor a harbinger of the end times; it is a humble smooth lumpsucker. news.com