If you've spent time in Brooklyn, New York, you're probably familiar with the Gowanus Canal as one of the most polluted bodies of water in America.
So perhaps it shouldn't come as a huge surprise that a weird three-eyed fish was found there. (The canal is also known to be home to floating gonorrhea.)
Earlier this week, a man named Mike Hunter submitted a video to local news site Gothamist, which showed a fisherman pulling what appears to be a three-eyed fish out of the superfund site. Hunter described the chaotic scene to the Gothamist: "Some lady was flipping out cause he whacked it dead and she said they were trying to preserve the remaining wildlife there or something. It was a crazy scene. He said he was gonna eat it! Crazy."
Three-eyed fish do exist in nature; one was pulled out of an Ontario lake just last year.
But scientists often attribute the third eye to mutations, not pollution. Professor Waldman, author of Heartbeats in the Muck: A Dramatic Look at the History, Sea Life, and Environment of New York Harbor told the New York Times of the find in the Gowanus Canal: "You’d never find a freshwater bullhead in the saltwater Gowanus Canal. As I said, to find it there is just too perfect."