The remains of a mysterious serpent-like creature that once lived at the bottom of the ocean have washed up on a popular island.
National Geographic reports that Tyler Dvorak from the Catalina Island Conservancy stumbled across the fish while scanning a beach with binoculars.
“I knew what it was immediately because of the one that washed up last year,” the biologist said.
“It was a pretty weird thing to see.”
Dvorak contacted researchers in Los Angeles who were able to travel to the island and take samples of the 4.3-metre beast.
A top university biologist and her students will now study the dead oarfish.
Oarfish are large, greatly elongated, fish belonging to the small family Regalecidae.
They have been known to grow up to 11 metres, but are rarely seen.
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發表於 2015-6-5 10:01 PM
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