This creature is often mistaken for a dragon; its appearance signifies impending disaster.
Dragon is a legendary creature from ancient China, always considered a symbol of good fortune and mightiness. As a totem of the Chinese nation, dragons have been worshipped and loved by people from ancient times to the present. In reality, people often wear dragon decorations.
Although dragons are only fictional creatures, nowadays many people still believe that dragons actually exist, and they are committed to finding the traces of dragons' existence.
In the natural world, there is such a marine creature that is often mistaken for a dragon by people, but unlike the symbolic meaning of dragons, this creature is not only ugly in appearance, but also when it appears, it means disaster is coming.
This eerie creature is the Fangtail Fish.
The Fangtail Fish is also known as Brunhilde, Dragon's Messenger, or Earthquake Fish. It is currently the longest bony fish discovered by humans in the ocean. It is widely distributed in the deep-sea area and rarely appears in the sea. However, when people see the Fangtail Fish, they often regard it as 'sea snake'.
The average length of the Fangtail Fish is between 4 and 6 meters, and the weight is about 150 to 200 kilograms. The largest Fangtail Fish currently has a body length of 7.6 meters and weighs more than 272 kilograms.
This fierce-looking fish usually lives in the deep-sea areas of tropical seas, usually appearing at depths of 200 meters underwater. People have found footprints of Fangtail Fish at depths of 1000 meters.
Biologists speculate that since this fish species lives in the deep sea where food is scarce, they are fierce and have a tendency to cannibalize themselves. This is also the reason why the number of Fangtail Fish is rare.
Then how did people link the Fangtail Fish with disaster? In fact, the appearance of the Fangtail Fish is related to earthquakes.
It is estimated that the Earth has more than 5 million earthquakes every year, and some earthquakes are too far or too small for humans and machines to detect. However, due to the different sensory systems of some creatures and their particular sensitivity, they can predict earthquakes.
The Fangtail Fish is one of these creatures. Before a large earthquake occurs, the sensory system of the Fangtail Fish is affected, so it will actively swim to the shore. Therefore, people also associate the Fangtail Fish with earthquakes.
