Kamis, 20 Januari 2011

Oarfish: World's Longest Fish are Almost Extinct


Have you ever seen this creature before??
This creature is oarfish, also known as the longest bone in the fish world, but unfortunately they soon will be extinct species.
so the fish will be categorized in the world's rarest animals







Oarfish
Othernames : Ribbon Fish
Scientific Names : Regalecus Glesne
Size Range : 10-50 feet
Habitat : Mediteranean & East Atlantic

These fish belong to the category of rare and very seldom seen. I was so scarce that this fish is never caught on camera in a viable state until 2001.

He belongs to the family Regalecidae which has four species. One species, Regalecus Glesne, we're talking about this, never entered into the Guinness Book of World Records because it never found a living with a body length up to 11 meters.



The food is plankton and tiny marine creatures other. He was able to live up to a depth of 1,000 meters. Strangely, this fish has no scales. His body was covered only by a kind of membrane, called guanine.

This fish has a red single fin and fish, including a loner. However, when these fish are sick or dying, it looks like the loner is not want to die in loneliness. So he climbed to the top surface of the sea and stay there until death. Maybe to attract the attention of the sailors, or just want to look at the sun for the last time.







The sailors of the past may have seen this fish at the surface and perceive it as a sea monster. For example, in 1860, when a 5-meter long Oarfish stranded on the shore of Bermuda, the residents immediately link it with the legendary sea monster.