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 |  Subject: MEET A SEA MON... ERRR OARFISH Thu Oct 22, 2009 12:08 am | |
| RECENTLY I HAD SOME TIME TO READ A FEW BOOKS, ONE OF THEM WAS MYSTERIOUS CREATURES FROM THE TIME LIFE SERIES MYSTERIES OF THE UNKNOWN. IN THIS BOOK THERE WERE DRAWINGS FROM THE ERA OF SEA EXPLORATION DEPICTING THE NUMEROUS FORMS OF ALLEGED SEA MONSTERS. I COULDNT HELP BUT SEE A FEW THAT WERE SO REMINISCENT OF SEA LIFE THAT WE KNOW OF TODAY AS WELL AS A FEW NOT SO WELL KNOWN SPECIES. IN LOOKING CLOSER AT NUMEROUS OTHER DRAWINGS OF DIFFERENT ERAS, I COULDNT HELP BUT NOTICE SOME SIMILARITIES IN A FEW, AND I AM FAR FROM THE FIRST TO NOTICE THESE SIMILARITIES. .HERE ARE A FEW DRAWINGS I CAME ACROSS. EACH ONE PROGRESSES IN DETAIL, THOUGH THE SCALE OF THE LAST ONE IS OFF IN ITS ACCURACY.   I KNOW AT FIRST GLANCE YOU MAY THINK THAT SOME PEOPLE HAVE SOME WILD IMAGINATIONS, BUT I ASSURE YOU THESE PICTURES DEPICT A REAL FISH. NOW UNLESS YOU ARE EITHER AN AVID SEA FAIRING PIRATE.. ARGH, LIVE NEAR THE COAST, A ZOOLOGIST, MARINE BIOLOGISTS, OR A NERD/GEEK , THE CHANCES OF KNOWING ABOUT THIS FISH ARE VERY SLIM. THE FISH I AM TALKING ABOUT IS THE OARFISH. HERE ARE SOME PICTURES   DONT THEY LOOK HAPPY.. TRUST ME THEY WONT BE SMILING SO BIG WHEN THEY TRY TO EAT IT.OFTEN TIMES THESE FISH SWIM AT THE SURFACE MAKING THEM VERY EASY TO SPOT FROM A BOAT, ESPECIALLY SEEING HOW THEY SPORT SUCH STRIKING COLORS AND UNFORGETABLE FEATURES. THEY ARE OFTEN FOUND WASHED UP ON SHORE EITHER DEAD OR DECAYING, AND IT WASNT UNTIL 2001 THAT THIS FISH WAS ACTAULLY FILMED ALIVE, AND SINCE THEN OFTEN TIMES CAUGHT IN A VERTICLE POSITION.
IN LIGHT OF WHAT WAS JUST PRESENTED MOST WILL TRY TO USE THIS AS AN ARGUEMENT TO SUPPORT THEIR VIEWS ON CRYPTO-ZOOLOGY, AND REALLY IT COULD BE USED AS SUPPORT FOR OR AGAINST. HOWEVER, THIS WAS NOT MY INTENTION, (OR WAS IT?... HMMM ). MORE THAN ANYTHING I WAS MERELY SHOWING A CASE OF SEA MONSTER TURNED INTO NOTHING MORE FANTASTICAL THAN A FISH ( A VERY PLACID AND GENTLE ONE AT THAT). | |
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