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title: "Beautiful Oarfish!"  
description: "A brief explanation of the beautiful-looking sea creature oarfish"  
author: "Anjita D."  
published: 2023-11-12  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/3209/beautiful-oarfish  
category: "animals"  
tags: ["Oarfish", "fish", "animals", "facts", "general knowledge"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Beautiful Oarfish!

![Beautiful Oarfish](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/392355c8-b0eb-4766-8047-960bdeb52ad2/images/53693847-d774-42ee-b355-3679fb730308.jpeg) ![Beautiful Oarfish](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/392355c8-b0eb-4766-8047-960bdeb52ad2/images/df685a82-d15b-4399-8dfc-7e7e62b61fb4.jpeg) Oarfish are big, elongated pelagic fish found in temperate and tropical oceans. ![Beautiful Oarfish](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/392355c8-b0eb-4766-8047-960bdeb52ad2/images/c707345b-f8ea-4d27-9296-43b5853bbd3b.jpeg) They are gigantic, being the longest bony fish, measuring up to 11 metres. ![Beautiful Oarfish](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/392355c8-b0eb-4766-8047-960bdeb52ad2/images/b0d61460-b884-40b4-b2ba-975d5a58b5d5.jpeg) They are deep-sea fish that reside between 250 and 1,000 metres (660 and 3,300 ft) below the surface. ![Beautiful Oarfish](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/392355c8-b0eb-4766-8047-960bdeb52ad2/images/d676b138-f589-4bbe-b6a5-1d74db5d5c19.jpeg) They are rarely seen on the surface. ![Beautiful Oarfish](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/392355c8-b0eb-4766-8047-960bdeb52ad2/images/c387b03f-58b6-46bf-a6bb-6dd82aa060ce.jpeg) According to local folklore, they can sense earthquakes and tsunamis, warn humans by entering the surface, but no scientific evidence to support this.

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