real-life dragon of the deep

[zenbassr]

great pics of a not-often seen fish from southern baja...

oarfish!

[njvbass]

That is awesome looking.

[Nickk]

Cool! I remember seeing drawings of them as a kid, very cool.

[Lightninrod]

Maybe there's been one or two in the Loch Ness......

[Cal]

that was amazing... thanks for posting Zen

[arbogastjunkie]

that is incredible!!

[dragon1]

WOW!!

One of the most incredible sequences of pics I have ever seen...Nature and her hidden secrets revealed...just ever so often.

Thanx for sharing!

[GamblerHydra]

Maybe there's been one or two in the Loch Ness......

That was the first thing I thought about. It would explain alot.

[progressive816]

that was pretty cool. i've never seen anything like that before.

[Papageno1791]

AMAZING!
So bad they did not succeed to release it alive...

[Shortlite]

Fantastic sight.

If you read the article properly they did try to release it, but it stayed up and beached itself again. The other fish also died.

I guess that pair came up to die? Plus the change from deep dark, high pressure water (cold), to warmer surface water may well have damaged them lethally.

[Papageno1791]

Fantastic sight.

If you read the article properly they did try to release it, but it stayed up and beached itself again.

Yup! I didn't express properly what I meant. I corrected it now

[dragon1]

Just like the mystical Dragon or the very real Elephant...

Each knows when its time has come and will journey to their place of passing on.

[eric_m]

Cool! I remember seeing drawings of them as a kid, very cool.

cave paintings?







i read something somewhere, were these things tend to be seen near death.

i thought they just washed up on shore or were too weak to go back into the deep. never thought they would beach themselves.

heres a wiki thing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oarfish

[iangler]

Very interesting
And too many questions that can't be answered