{"id":22565,"date":"2025-02-20T17:25:47","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T18:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=22565"},"modified":"2025-02-20T19:24:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T19:24:36","slug":"video-shows-a-rare-doomsday-fish-off-the-coast-of-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=22565","title":{"rendered":"Video Shows a Rare \u2018Doomsday\u2019 Fish Off the Coast of Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oarfish are rarely documented by scientists, but one was seen this month by a group visiting a beach in Mexico.<\/p>\n

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A rarely seen oarfish appeared in shallow water in Baja California Sur, Mexico, on Feb. 9, surprising beachgoers. The deep-sea-dwelling oarfish is believed to be the world\u2019s largest bony fish, and can grow as long as 26 feet.<\/span>Robert Hayes, via Storyful<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The elusive oarfish, a creature nicknamed the \u201cdoomsday fish\u201d because of its place in folklore as a precursor to disaster, was captured on video this month after it was seen in shallow water in Baja California Sur, along Mexico\u2019s Pacific Coast.<\/p>\n

A group of people who were visiting the area spotted the fish swimming near a beach on Feb. 9.<\/p>\n

Oarfish have an eel-like slender body and gaping mouth, but the sea-monster-like creatures have been rarely seen by people. As of August, only 20 oarfish had been recorded after they washed up along the coast of California since 1901, according to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography<\/a>, though one was seen in California<\/a> as recently as November.<\/p>\n

In Japanese mythology, oarfish are viewed as harbingers of doom, signaling impending earthquakes. But researchers in Japan debunked<\/a> any significant link in a paper published in 2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Oarfish typically dwell at depths of around 650 feet, but have been found living much deeper, up to 3,280 feet, according to the Florida Museum of Natural History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Oarfish are rarely documented by scientists, but one was seen this month by a group visiting a beach in Mexico.A rarely seen oarfish appeared in shallow water in Baja California Sur, Mexico, on Feb. 9, surprising beachgoers. The deep-sea-dwelling oarfish is believed to be the world\u2019s largest bony fish, and can grow as long as 26 feet.Robert Hayes, via StoryfulThe elusive oarfish, a creature nicknamed the \u201cdoomsday fish\u201d because of its place in folklore as a precursor to disaster, was captured on video this month after it was seen in shallow water in Baja California Sur, along Mexico\u2019s Pacific Coast.A group of people who were visiting the area spotted the fish swimming near a beach on Feb. 9.Oarfish have an eel-like slender body and gaping mouth, but the sea-monster-like creatures have been rarely seen by people. As of August, only 20 oarfish had been recorded after they washed up along the coast of California since 1901, according to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, though one was seen in California as recently as November.In Japanese mythology, oarfish are viewed as harbingers of doom, signaling impending earthquakes. But researchers in Japan debunked any significant link in a paper published in 2019.Oarfish typically dwell at depths of around 650 feet, but have been found living much deeper, up to 3,280 feet, according to the Florida Museum of Natural History.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22567,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22568,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22565\/revisions\/22568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}