Scary Shark...er...Freakin' Fish: Frightening or Phony?, (The Answer)

Posted Sep 16th 2006 9:03AM by Willy Volk
Filed under: Media, Flora & Fauna, Real or Not?

For our most recent Real or Not?, we featured a photo of a freakin' fish and asked if you thought it was real or not.

King-of-the-Salmon

80% of you assumed the fish was real. If you voted this way, you're right: this photo of a King-of-the-Salmon is 100% real!

King-of-the-Salmon normally live deep in the ocean (about 1600 feet below the surface), and local experts are confused to why 6-foot-long fish washed up on an Oregon beach a few weeks ago. If you're wondering about its regal name, Tiffany Booth of the Seaside Aquarium claims, "The name King-of-the-Salmon originated from an Indian legend which describes the fish as the 'king' who leads salmon back to the rivers to spawn." Sort of a Pied Piper of the salmon community.

[Photo, via Wierd Sharks]

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1. I love this stuff... Fish from the dark depths of the ocean coming to tell us we don't know everything about the ocean.

Posted at 3:58PM on Sep 16th 2006 by Eric Brodeur

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