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Sea Monster!!! (With pic)
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dammit, you had me all excited, thought it might have been the loch ness monster, then I find out it's just a big fish...
That is a VERY large fish it is amazing that such creatures exist by eating relativly small things like starfish, and only getting oxygen through gills. It is nearly to the physical limit of how large gill breathers can be I would think.
jared_kipe said:
Not sure about that - some sharks (Great Whites) can grow to be 10m or more, which is significantly larger than this fish.
I had heard of sunfish before, but really didn't know much about them and couldn't envision what they look like (the pics cool, but not very revealing).
Here is a link to some nice pics of sunfish, which are actually quite interesting and beautiful. And big.
http://www.earthwindow.com/mola.html#
Sunfish are common, and that one is pretty average size...nothing special 
Its just the timing of it washing up where it did is what is interesting.
Its just the timing of it washing up where it did is what is interesting.
And whale sharks can get bigger still - up to 14m long, 15 tons. I saw one on a whale watch here (didn't realize whale sharks were included in the price...) a few years ago. The guides estimated it to be about 35 feet (~11 meters, right?) long, and it was gigantic.emw said:
Josh said:Sunfish are common, and that one is pretty average size...nothing special
Its just the timing of it washing up where it did is what is interesting.
Wow! didn't know that. Looked pretty big to me, especially compared to what I can buy at the grocery. ¨_¨
They are not very aggressive fish. They live in the open ocean and their size is their defencewdlove said:The way that the picture is taken, it almost has a face that has human characteristics. I just wonder how aggressive it is at that size.
They were actually fished pretty heavily in the Monterrey and San Francisco area in the past. I have seen amazing pictures (and even live ones) of these fish. I am not sure of their natural predators, but one never knows what you can find in the ocean.mvc said:So the question is, what exactly killed this fish?
And can I not meet it in person please.
I really doubt if this is a hoax for one main reason. I scuba dive and have seen these guys. And they are HUGE, espically when you see your buddy swim up next to one....Macmaniac said:
Hows the scuba diving in indiana? j/k They are huge I have seen a few in the aquarium outer bay exhibits and some pictures of the really big ones that were fished out here in the past so I don't think it's a photoshopped picejb190 said: