SINALOA, MEXICO: Fishermen in Mexico have created a buzz after catching an elusive deep-sea creature that is believed to be a harbinger of earthquakes. It seems the great white shark isn’t the only sign of aquatic disaster. As observers fear a potential earthquake, a video showing the alleged ocean ominous has received more than 200,000 views on Twitter.

The oarfish, which can reach 56 feet in length and is the largest bony fish in the world, was caught in September 2022 off Sinaloa, Mexico, NYPost reported. The silvery creature, which has a fiery orange head acorn and a dorsal fin that runs the length of its long body, is seen in the accompanying video panting and writhing in the bed of a pickup truck. The serpentine creature that dwells between 656 and 3,200 feet below the surface of the ocean is rarely seen, so viewers were amazed they were able to capture it. Many others, however, pointed out that the rowing sighting indicated that there would soon be an earthquake. ‘The earthquake is coming,’ said one doomsday, while another wrote, ‘We are all going to die!’ “You don’t have to believe me, but in Chile that fish is a bad omen,” said an armchair apocalyptic. “Why don’t they put it back in the water, the poor animal is having trouble breathing,” asks a worried citizen. “Then they complain when they have a huge earthquake.”

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In Japanese folklore, oars are considered symbols of earthquakes and other natural disasters, which is the basis of this earthquake superstition. The slender plankton eater is said to deliberately rise to the surface and beach itself whenever it senses trouble approaching, according to Japanese mythology. These fears were heightened during the 2011 Fukushima earthquake and tsunami, when dozens of pelagic animals washed up on shore in the two years before the disaster.

Experts have, however, debunked the myths surrounding the arrival of the doomsday fish. “The link to seismic activity reports goes back many, many years, but there is no scientific proof of a link, so I don’t think people need to worry,” explained Hiroyuki Motomura. , professor of ichthyology at the University of Kagoshima. “I believe these fish tend to come to the surface when their physical condition is poor, coming up on water currents, which is why they are so often dead when found.”

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