Sentences with word «oarfish»

The 14 - foot (4.3 - meter) fish, which has a pug - like face and a skeleton of bone, was found five days after a marine instructor snorkeling off Santa Catalina Island, about 50 miles to the west, spotted a dead 18 - foot (5.5 - meter) oarfish in shallow water.

Pepperell writes that there have been reports of oarfish that measure up to 55 feet long, but these unsubstantiated accounts are most likely just fish tales.

(Reuters)- A rare oarfish has washed up on the California coast for the second time in less than a week, authorities said, leaving experts stumped.

The tales of sea serpents that terrified seafarers in days of yore may have been inspired by the mysterious oarfish.

It's unusual to find one intact oarfish carcass, so the fact that there were two within days of each other had scientists scratching their heads.

In October, two oarfish mysteriously washed up dead on beaches in Southern California.

Love is awaiting tissue samples of the larger oarfish that he will pass along for DNA sampling.

The back - to - back discoveries of beached oarfish are highly unusual, scientists said.

Due to the consistency of their skin, oarfish rarely are caught alive.

Natural selection is powerful enough to explain how male hammerheaded fruit bats became flying trumpets, how oarfish came to look and move so oddly, how elephants developed their trunks and infrasound, even how naked mole rat queens came to run their reproductive dictatorships.

As you go into the depths, don't be surprised if you run into Giant Squids or others Oarfish that lives into the warm water of the deep - sea.

A rare oarfish has washed up on the California coast for the second time in less than a week, authorities said, leaving experts stumped.

Little is known about the behavior or numbers of oarfish, Love said.

The oarfish in this picture was stranded in Mexico, and it appears to be about 20 feet long.

He speculated the oarfish, who are not strong swimmers, were carried toward shore by a powerful current and then battered to death by strong swells.

Oarfish are most probably the origin of the sea serpent mythology.

The Oarfish (リュウグウノツカイ, Ryūgūnotsukai) is a fish that can be found in the ocean between December and May.

On the basis of their descriptions, the only fish that would fit this description, would have been the ribbonfish or oarfish (Family Cepolidae), however, the oarfish is an open water, pelagic fish, and its presence in the Blue Hole would have been very unlikely.

Available Fish: Barbel Steed, Bitterling, Black Bass, Blowfish, Bluegill, Carp, Coelacanth, Crucian Carp, Dab, Dace, Football Fish, Freshwater Goby, Giant Trevally, Goldfish, Horse Mackerel, Koi, Oarfish, Olive Flounder, Pale Chub, Pike, Pond Smelt, Popeyed Goldfish, Red Snapper, Ribbon Eel, Sea Bass, Sea Butterfly, Squid, Stringfish, Tuna, Whale Shark, Yellow Perch.

Available Fish: Barbel Steed, Bitterling, Black Bass, Blowfish, Bluegill, Carp, Coelacanth, Crucian Carp, Dab, Dace, Football Fish, Freshwater Goby, Giant Trevally, Goldfish, Horse Mackerel, Koi, Oarfish, Olive Flounder, Pale Chub, Pond Smelt, Popeyed Goldfish, Red Snapper, Ribbon Eel, Sea Bass, Sea Butterfly, Squid, Stringfish, Tuna, Whale Shark, Yellow Perch

Oarfish, a twenty - seven - foot - tall soft sculpture representing the titular deep - sea creature, its silver silk body speckled with sumi - ink brushstrokes, presided over Paul Heyer's second solo exhibition at Night Gallery.

So, channel your inner child, grab your sweetheart, and take a ride on all of your favorite Bostonian animals (i.e. fox, squirrel, peregrine falcon, skunk, whale, turtle, butterfly, lobster, harbor seal, rabbit, owl, oarfish, whale, and grasshopper).