Posted on 07/14/2023 1:12:25 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Divers off Taiwan were mesmerized after encountering a giant oarfish — which is rumored to be a sign of impending earthquakes — that had mysterious holes in its body, as seen in a video making waves on Instagram.
In the enchanting footage, taken off the coast of Ruifang, divers can be seen encircling the shimmery silver critter as it hovers near the surface.
At one point, one of the divers reaches out and touches the alleged doomsaying denizen of the deep.The video player is currently playing an ad. You can skip the ad in 5 sec with a mouse or keyboard. Divers estimated that the “earthquake fish” measured around 6-and-a-half feet long, which, while big, doesn’t compare to their max size of 56-feet long — the longest of any bony fish.
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Oar fish can get very large.
Have not heard of that shark before. The stuff of nightmares! Not to forget the very unlovely victim of same.
What do you think they are? Parasite holes?
The name “cookiecutter shark” refers to its feeding habit of gouging round plugs, as if cut out with a cookie cutter, out of larger animals. Marks made by cookiecutter sharks have been found on a wide variety of marine mammals and fishes, as well as on submarines, undersea cables, and even human bodies.
I am referencing the picture the article is showing. The Oarfish in the picture is clearly more than 6.5 feet long. Typo and/or poor editing is my guess.
LOL. bonus hole?
Can’t lampreys make that kind of bite too?
Alien worm holes?
You are OK. I guess, that maybe the oarfish was 6.5 meters (not feet).
Cookie Cutter sharks do their work on humans, too. Saw that on some nature channel recently.
Ack! I shouldn’t have looked before going to Dreamland, now potentially Nightmare City.
Good God that is garbage whiskey
Yes, but they don’t bore into the flesh, they just suck the blood like a vampire..................
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