This video from the USA says about itself:
Rare oarfish washes ashore California beach
3 June 2015
A rarely seen oarfish is found washed ashore on one of Los Angeles’ coastal isles, Catalina
This video from the USA says about itself:
Rare oarfish washes ashore California beach
3 June 2015
A rarely seen oarfish is found washed ashore on one of Los Angeles’ coastal isles, Catalina Island.
From the Christian Science Monitor in the USA:
Humongous oarfish washes onto California shore
A rarely-seen, mysterious deep-sea fish washes ashore, with ovaries found to weigh an astonishing 24 pounds.
By Elizabeth Palermo, Livescience.com
June 8, 2015
A stroll on the beach turned strange for two co-workers this week when they stumbled upon a giant (and newly deceased) deep-sea creature that had made its way ashore.
The 13.5-foot-long (4 meters) carcass that washed up on the beach of Catalina Island on Monday (June 1) was that of an oarfish, a rarely seen fish that typically sticks to deep water. The creature, which is equipped with impressively long ovaries, may have washed ashore just minutes before it was spotted, according to Amy Catalano, a conservation coordinator for the nonprofit Catalina Island Conservancy and one of the people who discovered the oarfish on the beach. [See Photos of Giant Oarfish Washed Ashore]
“It was amazing, it felt like a movie prop; it looked make-believe almost,” Catalano told Reuters.
The impressively large fish was far from the first to wash up in recent years. In October 2013, an even bigger oarfish (18 feet, or 5.5 m) came ashore at Catalina Island. Just days later, a second oarfish carcass appeared on a beach just north of San Diego. And many more of these huge creatures make landfall in Baja California, Mexico, according to John Lundberg, curator of ichthyology at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University in Philadelphia.
It’s not totally clear why the fish end up on land, Lundberg told Live Science, adding that there’s much about these creatures that remains unknown.
“There’s some suspicion that [oarfish], which live in deeper water, come closer to the surface because they’re ill or because something disturbs them. And once they’re out of their deep-water habitat, they tend to expire. Or it could just be old age, as far 