What is this creature?

When I visited Cheju in South Korea back in '95 I stumbled across this creature in what seemed to be some kind of marine museum. The image shows two huge eel-like creatures preserved in some kind of liquid in a long aquarium. You can see the picture I took of the cretures here:

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hmm... ot a creature i've ever seen before, looks like a sea serpent like thingy.
But i'm sure it's just something that it's a normal animal that was already discovered

Think its called a ribbon fish..summat like that anyway.. definately been discovered, and definately pretty odd. If memory serves, which it probably doesn't, I think they swim vertically, kind of drifting.. anyway..sure theres lots about them in marine biology sites..Cool picture though!

Originally posted by willspring
Think its called a ribbon fish..summat like that anyway.. definately been discovered, and definately pretty odd. If memory serves, which it probably doesn't, I think they swim vertically, kind of drifting.. anyway..sure theres lots about them in marine biology sites..Cool picture though!

Oarfish. Yeah, they've been videoed as swimming vertocally, sort of like a seahorse. I guess that makes sense - with as long and thin as they are, side-to-side undulation would probably only cause injury.

Maybe just a really big eel? Eels get petty big!

It's an oar fish! And they get even bigger!

haha i've seen this picture so many times. Imagine that thing bitting your worm on your fishing line, 'Hey Ma! I think i got some...oo my line broke off...'

Looks like a bird to me

i cant really tell though in japan you will see lot of strange stuff
check this out from australia
australian-animals.net...

Looks like an oar fish as someone pointed out earlier

Looks, to me like a big eel, but it could also be a oar fish

It probably is an Oar fish..There is so much unexplored seas and ocean that there might be fish 15 times bigger then that still out there.

-Jimmy-

Originally posted by Paresthesia
It's an oar fish! And they get even bigger!

YEE YEE! the famous picture,the thai people all believed it was a dragon/naga
paya nak or something like that..

Usually whenever one comes up and shows itself [before it dies]
or if one dies on a country's shore..something bad is going to happen..

i heard about oarfish occurences and read a lot about them showing up and die and then natural diasters happen a lot but i don't remember the links

they kept record and everything

Just imagine what we will find when we will b able to go to the deepest waters in the world! Oarfish the size of navy ships!:O