I understand that this is an extremely rare fish sighting, but seeing all these smiling people touching a dead fish they're currently in the water with is so weird and creepy. Don't touch dead things! You don't know why they're dead!
this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2024
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Damn it, now we have Doomsday fish AIDS. I hope you're happy now oceangoers.
Stop getting fancy with it. Everyone knows diseases are named animal name-pox so it'd be doomsdaypox lol /s
Doomsdaids-pox, got it.
Yeah, likewise. There's a shot of the mangled, rotting fish corpse on the sand surrounded in flies and people are just prodding it. Putting aside how bad it must smell, why the fuck would you want to touch it at all?!
I wonder if their tendency to appearance before an earthquake is just coincidence, or if there are signs, like changes in water temperature, changes in current, bursts of electromagnetic energy, etc, that can indicate that an earthquake is going to occur several days in advance; and oarfish are sensitive to it, resulting in them surfacing and dying from depressurization.
Considering other animals have been known to leave areas, there seems to be something we are missing or currently unable to detect/measure.
It's clearly the other way around. These animals leave, causing plates to slip because of reduced weight.
I don't know enough about oarfish to refute this claim so I'll assume it's likely accurate.
This one was dead, so I don't think it was any kind of reaction.
It could be. Maybe it surfaced because of some detection, then the depressurization killed it.
I'd say that would be evolutionary retardation if that's an actual thing lol
Evolution isn't some sentient force striving for perfection. There is a lot of retarded stuff that we have evolution to thank for. This could just be a side effect of some other trait that normally helps the fish survive. Plus, earthquakes don't happen often enough to affect evolution in the long run.
Nah that's teeth. You get two sets for your entire life and they suck. You have the ability to grow more as evidenced by your second set, but fuck you.
Lol I've been banking on all the news about new teeth regrowing technology. Been banking on it for 20 years before the tech even broke ground 😂
My understanding was that fault lines create low pressure waves that animals can detect before an earthquake occurs. I think these days we have equipment that can generally detect them before animals do.
I caught one of these in 2020 during the height of the pandemic (in Animal Crossing).
I hope I catch morefish!
I had no idea what a "doomsday fish" was, making it a pretty confusing headline, I nearly skipped the story. If on the other hand it had just said "oarfish" I would have known exactly what they were talking about and found the headline more interesting.
Ok
The term is more familiar in Asia on countries along the pacific ring of fire, where fishermen and people living on the coasts see the surfacing of deep sea creatures as omens of a big disaster coming, usually an earthquake.
Catching these in Animal Crossing is such a thrill
it looks like a beebee f'ing whale Jay, wtf is that thing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n2cIeIpzLA