Chelsea, I found some. I don't know. It's potentially bad news, but like a good kind of bad news. So I'm excited for this article. So me too. Now. Yeah. This comes from the CBC. It is posted on. Sure. Are you November 22nd, 2024? So fairly recent. As one we're doing this. The most recent we could bet. Yeah. Written by Sheena Goodyear and the article title. These rare mysterious deep sea fish are washing up in California. No one's sure why. Ben Frable considers himself a librarian of fish.
And he just acquired a rare new specimen for his collection at 3.3 meter or fish. Mysterious deep sea creature shaped like an eel washed up earlier this month on the shores of California. Thanks to the efforts of a keen eyed PhD student, it will soon be added to Frable's Fish Library. Wow. That's a that's a good line. Better known as the Marine vertebrate collection at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, California. Quote, they're very rare encounters for us.
And quote, Frable, the collections manager, told as it happens, host, Neil Cokesl, quote, getting to see a fresh specimen with a bright silver skin and that bright red fin and just the full scale of it laid out was pretty astounding. And quote, or fish are massive and elusive fish with reflective skin who reside in the oceans depths all over the world. They are sometimes called the doomsday fish. They are described in Japanese folklore as harbingers of disaster.
It's suspected that they could even be the origin of the mythical sea serpent drawn throughout the history of sailors maps. The longest or fish ever recorded was eight meters long, making them the biggest species of bony fish. Frable says some partial remains suggest that they could even reach as long as 11 meters. Because they're deep sea fish, humans don't encounter them very often.
Footage captured in recent years has shed some light on how they hunt, hovering vertically with their heads up, waiting for prey to swim by. Quote, their main prey item, even though they do kind of look ferocious and get pretty big, are actually very small shrimp-like creatures called krill. And then they have this very elaborate mouth that they can use to generate suction and slurp down these krill.
And quote, Frable said, there's so much scientists still don't know about or fish, Frable said, and most of what they do know comes from studying their remains when they wash ashore. Even that, Frable says, is rare. There are only 22 scientific recordings of these creatures washing up in California since 1901. That doesn't even give us a large sample size, says Frable. Quote, so each specimen can really provide a lot of insight into these animals.
And quote, that's why he was so excited when he heard about Alice in Laferrier, a Scripps PhD student on November 7th. Laferrier, who studies ocean acoustics, was walking her dog along the Grandview Beach in Encinitas, California, when she spotted an elongated object on the ground. Quote, as I got closer, I recognized it immediately. I knew it was rare, so I knew it was important, end quote, she said.
She reached out to Frable, who contacted the U.S. Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to recover the fish and bring it in for necropsy. While she waited for the team to arrive, Laferrier stood guard over the grisly discovery. Can you imagine just guarding a 10 foot dead fish? Yeah, excuse me, what are you doing? Just walkers by. Hey, hey, it's claimed. Back off. What do you even look at?
Quote, shortly after I found it, I had gone back to my beach chairs to tell my fiancee about it, and I turned around and see a surfer walking down the beach with the fish on the surfboard. Never mind, apparently she needed to. He said, I just wanted to put it in my friend's van. I'm glad that it didn't end up in someone's van and then the garbage. I'm glad I was able to help. End quote, she said. When Orphish Washa Shore Frable says there tends to be more than one.
In fact, this is the third Orphish specimen to turn up in California in as many months, including one scripts to recovered in La Fola in August. They're creepy. Yeah, quote, that might indicate that maybe these fish are moving around and are in specific location for a year or two and then move away from that location. While they're here, if they're disoriented or sick or dying, we don't really know why they will eventually wash onto beaches.
But we don't have a good answer as to why that might be happening now in California. End quote. In 2013, the last time Orphish were turning up in California, marine biologist Milton Love told as it happens he suspected a change in ocean currents brought the fish out of the calm deep waters that you're used to and into more turbulent shallow waters. Quote, they're just very delicate and I think that they just died from trauma, basically.
End quote. He said at the time, nearly a decade later, he told the New York Times that it's still his best guess. Several of the creatures washed ashore in Japan ahead of the catastrophic 2011 earthquake further entrenching their doomsday reputation. But a 2019 study by Japanese scientists found no correlation between quakes and Orphish appearances. Fremel says he's not worried of the recent findings signify anything ominous.
Quote, if there was something bad happening in the ecosystem, we wouldn't just see a couple of random fish. We'd see a lot of other organisms also showing up on our beaches. End quote. Laferrier also seems similarly in phase. Quote, I'm hoping you know it's not specifically a bad omen for me. End quote. She said with a laugh. That's the article. So you see why I said it could be bad news, but in an interesting way. Yeah, it's funny. I was just googling what they look like.
And first of all, it looks like the most gigantic sardine you could ever see. Oh, yeah, it just looks like a fish that got stretched. That's it. Yeah, it's very creepy. I wouldn't like it, but I don't like things like that. The other thing that I'm a little taken back by is that how come, like some of the biggest organisms just survive on a grill? I know it's basically if it's over 10 meters in the ocean, it's going to eat the smallest things in it. I don't understand how that works.
That's so weird. And then just that it goes like straight up and down. And I find that's so funny too, because that's how blue whale, some sort of whale, sleeps. That's sperm whale sleep that way. Yeah, it's super creepy. Yeah, it's so creepy. And so anyhow, those are nothing to do with the article. I'm just finding similarities between things in the oceans.
And then I came across an article because there's about one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 adults hold in one of these things. And I clicked on it. And while it's creepy, it linked to an article that said, do or fish predict earthquakes. And then you started talking about that in the article. And I really have no new input. It's just all observations right now. Well that's good.
I wanted to get this in before the year end though, just in case we need to get this in the year end review as a follow up. Because there's an earthquake somewhere. Because California doesn't exist anymore. So we got it in there just in case. And although I do wonder if it does occur, can we actually cover it? Or is that no longer a fringy topic? No, I think at that point it just be a dology zone. Yeah, okay. It's just us being smug. Okay. Yeah, that's it.
And then we wait till next year's year end review. And I guess the moral of the story here is, I don't know, if you come across an or fish, there's kind of two things that you should do. One of them is guard it because apparently people will just take it. And apparently that's what you should do. I at least saw it after. Oh, the other thing I wanted to come, yeah. Or just push it back into the ocean and maybe that gets rid of the bad omen. Has anyone tried that?
Maybe not yet, apparently because it's too popular. It's too popular. And you probably need at least four people to push it back into the ocean. Yeah. Maybe no one has the opportunity yet. And I wanted to not cut you off during the first part. Why does this one guy have a fish library? I don't know. That's kind of weird too. I really do like the sound of the Frable Fish Library though. I'm more curious as to why the frick he has a fish library. Oh, I mean, it's not that weird.
It's like dead fish. There's a penis museum library thing in Iceland. I just like collecting penises and there he is. Did anyone ask about the Orrfish's penis? Maybe someone did. It's just not... No comment actually. Yeah. It's in the penis article. Orrfish penis article. Different article. And we're at the end of this and somehow we didn't think to Google at the entire time. Anyhow, you guys got 48 hours. A couple things to Google, Orrfish penis, also sperm whale sleeping.
Probably best to keep those separate. Just a fun picture on that second one. I can't confirm on that first one whether or not it'd be a fun photo. But anyhow, you got 48 hours report back to us. Anyhow, bye.