Photo from Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nTo make this fish even cooler is the fact that it has a bluish, scale-less body with a large red dorsal fin. If there is one deep sea fish that has a fashion sense, it is definitely the Oarfish.\u00a0 As a result of the extreme length and interesting colours, it is believed that this particular deep sea fish is responsible for many “Sea Monster’ sightings.<\/p>\n
So what do these bizarre creatures feed on when hanging out 3000 feet below the ocean surface?\u00a0 Well, they have a small mouth and their teeth are hardly visible so I doubt they are taking down large sharks.\u00a0 Instead, they feed on harmless animals such as plankton, shrimp and any other crustaceans they can get their mouth on.\u00a0 Naturally, these long, heavy fish provide an excellent food source to even larger fish such as sharks.\u00a0 You have to love the circle of life.<\/p>\n
It is time to head back to the surface and catch a breath before we head back down for another Deep Sea Adventure tomorrow.\u00a0 Enjoy the rest of your day and I will chat with you tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Welcome to the second installment of Wild Facts – Deep Sea Creatures, where we head to the deepest and darkest depths of the ocean to find some of the strangest animals known to man.\u00a0 Today we are going to study the longest bony fish that humans know about.\u00a0 Of course I am talking about the amazing Oarfish.\u00a0 The nice thing about this animal is the fact that even though they are considered a Deep Sea Fish, you will get to see them quite often.\u00a0 This probably isn’t good for the fish since it means they have just washed up on <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[64,4024],"tags":[348,282,451,1946,1944,1945,4025],"yoast_head":"\n
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