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Chelsea, I found some.

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I don't know.

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It's potentially bad news, but like a good kind of bad news.

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So I'm excited for this article.

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So me too. Now. Yeah.

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This comes from the CBC.

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It is posted on.

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Sure. Are you November 22nd, 2024?

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So fairly recent.

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As one we're doing this.

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The most recent we could bet.

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Yeah. Written by Sheena Goodyear and the article title.

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These rare mysterious deep sea fish are washing up in California.

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No one's sure why.

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Ben Frable considers himself a librarian of fish.

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And he just acquired a rare new specimen for his collection at 3.3 meter or fish.

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Mysterious deep sea creature shaped like an eel washed up earlier this month

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on the shores of California.

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Thanks to the efforts of a keen eyed PhD student,

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it will soon be added to Frable's Fish Library.

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Wow. That's a that's a good line.

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Better known as the Marine vertebrate collection at the Scripps

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Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, California.

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Quote, they're very rare encounters for us.

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And quote, Frable, the collections manager, told as it happens, host,

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Neil Cokesl, quote, getting to see a fresh specimen

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with a bright silver skin and that bright red fin

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and just the full scale of it laid out was pretty astounding.

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And quote, or fish are massive and elusive fish with reflective skin

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who reside in the oceans depths all over the world.

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They are sometimes called the doomsday fish.

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They are described in Japanese folklore as harbingers of disaster.

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It's suspected that they could even be the origin of the mythical sea serpent

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drawn throughout the history of sailors maps.

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The longest or fish ever recorded was eight meters long,

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making them the biggest species of bony fish.

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Frable says some partial remains suggest that they could even reach as long as 11 meters.

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Because they're deep sea fish, humans don't encounter them very often.

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Footage captured in recent years has shed some light on how they hunt,

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hovering vertically with their heads up, waiting for prey to swim by.

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Quote, their main prey item, even though they do kind of look ferocious

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and get pretty big, are actually very small shrimp-like creatures called krill.

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And then they have this very elaborate mouth

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that they can use to generate suction and slurp down these krill.

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And quote, Frable said, there's so much scientists still don't know about or fish,

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Frable said, and most of what they do know comes from studying their remains when they wash ashore.

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Even that, Frable says, is rare.

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There are only 22 scientific recordings of these creatures washing up in California since 1901.

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That doesn't even give us a large sample size, says Frable.

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Quote, so each specimen can really provide a lot of insight into these animals.

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And quote, that's why he was so excited when he heard about Alice in Laferrier,

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a Scripps PhD student on November 7th.

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Laferrier, who studies ocean acoustics, was walking her dog along the Grandview Beach

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in Encinitas, California, when she spotted an elongated object on the ground.

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Quote, as I got closer, I recognized it immediately.

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I knew it was rare, so I knew it was important, end quote, she said.

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She reached out to Frable, who contacted the U.S. Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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to recover the fish and bring it in for necropsy.

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While she waited for the team to arrive, Laferrier stood guard over the grisly discovery.

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Can you imagine just guarding a 10 foot dead fish?

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Yeah, excuse me, what are you doing?

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Just walkers by.

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Hey, hey, it's claimed.

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Back off.

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What do you even look at?

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Quote, shortly after I found it, I had gone back to my beach chairs to tell my

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fiancee about it, and I turned around and see a surfer walking down the beach with

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the fish on the surfboard.

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Never mind, apparently she needed to.

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He said, I just wanted to put it in my friend's van.

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I'm glad that it didn't end up in someone's van and then the garbage.

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I'm glad I was able to help.

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End quote, she said.

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When Orphish Washa Shore Frable says there tends to be more than one.

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In fact, this is the third Orphish specimen to turn up in California in as many months,

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including one scripts to recovered in La Fola in August.

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They're creepy.

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Yeah, quote, that might indicate that maybe these fish are moving around and are in

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specific location for a year or two and then move away from that location.

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While they're here, if they're disoriented or sick or dying, we don't really know why

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they will eventually wash onto beaches.

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But we don't have a good answer as to why that might be happening now in California.

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End quote.

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In 2013, the last time Orphish were turning up in California, marine biologist Milton

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Love told as it happens he suspected a change in ocean currents brought the fish out of

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the calm deep waters that you're used to and into more turbulent shallow waters.

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Quote, they're just very delicate and I think that they just died from trauma, basically.

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End quote. He said at the time, nearly a decade later, he told the New York Times that it's

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still his best guess.

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Several of the creatures washed ashore in Japan ahead of the catastrophic 2011 earthquake

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further entrenching their doomsday reputation.

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But a 2019 study by Japanese scientists found no correlation between quakes and Orphish appearances.

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Fremel says he's not worried of the recent findings signify anything ominous.

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Quote, if there was something bad happening in the ecosystem, we wouldn't just see a

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couple of random fish.

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We'd see a lot of other organisms also showing up on our beaches.

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End quote.

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Laferrier also seems similarly in phase.

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Quote, I'm hoping you know it's not specifically a bad omen for me.

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End quote.

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She said with a laugh.

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That's the article.

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So you see why I said it could be bad news, but in an interesting way.

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Yeah, it's funny.

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I was just googling what they look like.

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And first of all, it looks like the most gigantic sardine you could ever see.

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Oh, yeah, it just looks like a fish that got stretched.

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That's it.

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Yeah, it's very creepy.

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I wouldn't like it, but I don't like things like that.

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The other thing that I'm a little taken back by is that how come, like some of the biggest

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organisms just survive on a grill?

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I know it's basically if it's over 10 meters in the ocean, it's going to eat the smallest

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things in it.

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I don't understand how that works.

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That's so weird.

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And then just that it goes like straight up and down.

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And I find that's so funny too, because that's how blue whale, some sort of whale, sleeps.

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That's sperm whale sleep that way.

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Yeah, it's super creepy.

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Yeah, it's so creepy.

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And so anyhow, those are nothing to do with the article.

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I'm just finding similarities between things in the oceans.

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And then I came across an article because there's about one, two, three, four, five,

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six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 adults hold in one of these things.

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And I clicked on it.

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And while it's creepy, it linked to an article that said, do or fish predict earthquakes.

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And then you started talking about that in the article.

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And I really have no new input.

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It's just all observations right now.

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Well that's good.

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I wanted to get this in before the year end though, just in case we need to get this in

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the year end review as a follow up.

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Because there's an earthquake somewhere.

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Because California doesn't exist anymore.

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So we got it in there just in case.

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And although I do wonder if it does occur, can we actually cover it?

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Or is that no longer a fringy topic?

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No, I think at that point it just be a dology zone.

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Yeah, okay.

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It's just us being smug.

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Okay.

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Yeah, that's it.

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And then we wait till next year's year end review.

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And I guess the moral of the story here is, I don't know, if you come across an or fish,

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there's kind of two things that you should do.

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One of them is guard it because apparently people will just take it.

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And apparently that's what you should do.

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I at least saw it after.

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Oh, the other thing I wanted to come, yeah.

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Or just push it back into the ocean and maybe that gets rid of the bad omen.

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Has anyone tried that?

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Maybe not yet, apparently because it's too popular.

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It's too popular.

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And you probably need at least four people to push it back into the ocean.

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Yeah.

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Maybe no one has the opportunity yet.

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And I wanted to not cut you off during the first part.

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Why does this one guy have a fish library?

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I don't know.

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That's kind of weird too.

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I really do like the sound of the Frable Fish Library though.

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I'm more curious as to why the frick he has a fish library.

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Oh, I mean, it's not that weird.

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It's like dead fish.

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There's a penis museum library thing in Iceland.

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I just like collecting penises and there he is.

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Did anyone ask about the Orrfish's penis?

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Maybe someone did.

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It's just not...

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No comment actually.

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Yeah.

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It's in the penis article.

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Orrfish penis article.

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Different article.

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And we're at the end of this and somehow we didn't think to Google at the entire time.

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Anyhow, you guys got 48 hours.

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A couple things to Google, Orrfish penis, also sperm whale sleeping.

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Probably best to keep those separate.

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Just a fun picture on that second one.

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I can't confirm on that first one whether or not it'd be a fun photo.

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But anyhow, you got 48 hours report back to us.

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Anyhow, bye.