Oarfish – The Sea Serpent of Ancient Times

By on May 2, 2010 in Nature


Oarfish, also known as ribbonfish and king of herrings, is a deep water creature that can grow up to a size of 50 feet (15 meters) in length and weigh up to 600 pounds (272 kg). This deep sea creature is officially the longest bony fish living at a depth of between 66 feet and 1000 feet. It is known that when oarfish gets sick or is near to death it comes on the surface of the water and sometimes to the shore, that’s why we have ancient tales of seeing sea serpents coming out of the water surface. A 16 feet oarfish that was found on the shore of Bermuda beach in 1860 was described as sea serpent (image below). There are no scales on the fish and it’s not edible due to its gelatinous flesh.

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  • Snyco26

    OARFISH MUST BE PRESERVE SO THAT THEY WILL NOT BE INSTINCT FOR THE NEXT GENERATION.

  • Eglin

    Why are you acting like we need to be educated? lol

  • Ted

    Eglin because you are not an educated person..

  • r4ymund

    teds right eglin your not an educated person we should preserve oar fish so the next generation can see the beauty of oar fish

  • Wolfbite

    You wont be saying that when they PRESERVE YOU!!!

  • http://twitter.com/leadoptimize Chris Denny

    Synco, I think if you had used “EXtinct” there would be fewer comments here.

  • Mick

    Oarfish is awesome and must live alot so we can see at later time do you not think?

  • Mick

    Oarfish is bir bore fish really as it is not move too much and not nice.

  • educated.

    You're…

  • Donald Tusk

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  • Jan

    puta madre

  • boy

    wow

  • Margarettumberger

    Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Margarerttumberger