{"id":2770,"date":"2025-06-04T14:11:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T14:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/04\/beast-from-the-deep-rare-3-metre-doomsday-fish-found-on-remote-beach\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T14:11:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T14:11:32","slug":"beast-from-the-deep-rare-3-metre-doomsday-fish-found-on-remote-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/04\/beast-from-the-deep-rare-3-metre-doomsday-fish-found-on-remote-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"BEAST FROM THE DEEP &#8211; Rare 3-metre \u2018doomsday fish\u2019 found on remote beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-06-04 14:11:31<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>A huge deep-sea oarfish has washed up on a remote beach in Tasmania, sparking surprise among locals.<BR><br \/>\nThe long silver creature, nicknamed the &#8220;doomsday fish&#8221;, was found on Ocean Beach near Strahan by walker Sybil Robertson on Monday (02.06.25).<BR><br \/>\nShe said: &#8220;When I go out there, I\u2019m the only person on the beach. It\u2019s really wild. There\u2019s nothing between here and Argentina.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nRobertson said she took a different path than usual and noticed sea eagles hovering over something on the sand. What she saw was a lifeless fish stretching across the beach.<BR><br \/>\nShe said: &#8220;I\u2019m five foot nine, and I\u2019ve got a reasonable stride, [it was] a good three-and-a-bit paces.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nRobertson estimated it was about three metres long.<BR><br \/>\nShe said: &#8220;It was fantastic. I just knew it was something unusual and weird.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nShe later posted a photo on the Citizen Scientists of Tasmania page. Experts identified it as an oarfish, a rarely seen species that can grow up to eight metres and weigh more than 400 kilograms.<BR><br \/>\nMarine biologist Associate Professor Neville Barrett from the University of Tasmania said it was a rare sight.<BR><br \/>\nThe expert said: &#8220;Oarfish are an epipelagic species. We\u2019re just not out there. We\u2019re not looking, we\u2019re not diving, we\u2019re not even fishing in that part of the ocean.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nHe added that the fish are large but not dangerous. <BR><br \/>\nProfessor Barrett explained: &#8220;They\u2019re a phenomenally big fish. But they\u2019re lazy fish with very little muscle. They tend to float around, often vertically in the water, eating various types of plankton.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nLocals say the oarfish has long been tied to eerie legends, with some believing its sudden appearance is a warning of natural disasters like earthquakes or tsunamis.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-06-04 14:11:31 A huge deep-sea oarfish has washed up on a remote beach in Tasmania, sparking surprise among locals. The long silver creature, nicknamed the &#8220;doomsday fish&#8221;, was found on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2772,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770\/revisions\/2772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}