Regalek, the longest bony fish, was filmed in shallow water off the coast of Taiwan by a group of divers.
This specimen, which looks like a silver ribbon adorned with a large fin, has fueled many nautical legends due to its rarity.
Its appearance on the surface would be a harbinger of an earthquake that has never been scientifically proven.
Regalek, the longest bony fish, was filmed in shallow water off the coast of Taiwan by a group of divers.
This specimen, which looks like a silver ribbon adorned with a large fin, has fueled many nautical legends due to its rarity.
Its appearance on the surface would be a harbinger of an earthquake that has never been scientifically proven.
Sinister creature? Recognized by Guinness as the world’s longest bony fish, regalek, the “king of herrings”, has been sighted off the east coast of Taiwan. The specimen, whose slender, elongated body resembles a huge silver ribbon adorned with a large fin, hence the name of the ribbon fish, was filmed by a group of divers in Ruifang Scenic Area, New Taipei Municipality. Diving instructor Wang Cheng-ru shared on Instagram his encounter with this filamentous animal, which is very rarely seen in the wild.
Like the eel, this enigmatic paddlefish, which averages 5 to 7 meters in length (with an unofficial record of 17 meters!), typically lives at depths of 200 to 1,000 meters. The regalek, which practices self-amputation to get rid of a part of itself and thus save energy when it needs it, propels itself forward by vertical undulations of its dorsal fin, starting vertically in the water column, head up. A stealthy type, his scales make him nearly invisible to the naked eye during his occasional ascents to the surface.
Hence the charm that surrounds it. In Japanese folklore, the ribbon fish does not have good abs: it is considered an animal with a bad omen. Its rises in shallow water will coincide with an imminent earthquake. For which he received the unflattering nickname “fish of the apocalypse.” This correlation between seismic activity and the appearance of these majestic creatures on the surface, feeding only on fish, small shellfish and plankton, intensified after the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit the Fukushima nuclear power plant in 2011.
Regalek announces an upcoming earthquake?
“Fish living deep at the bottom of the ocean are more sensitive to fault movements than fish living near the surface of the water.”exhibited in 2010 at JapanTimes Kiyoshi Wadatsumi, environmental seismologist. Therefore, the unusual and mysterious appearance of this specimen off the coast of Taiwan, as always, causes concern. However, these concerns about future seismic activity remain scientifically unfounded. In 2022, an oar was caught off the coast of Chile, but this was not followed by a natural disaster.
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But what was this rowing fish doing at such a shallow depth? Wang Cheng-ru, who had contact with him underwater, thinks he came to the surface due to an injury. In the video he made, we see large holes on the body of the animal. “Injuries on the giant paddle could be the result of a shark attack”advanced diving instructor with Newsweek. “He must have been dying, so he swam in shallow water.”
“This fish tends to float to the surface when its physical condition is poor, going upstream,” explained in 2019 South China Morning Post Hiroyuki Motomura, professor of ichthyology at Kagoshima University. “That’s why they are so often found dead.” Washed up on the beaches and never whole
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