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fishosaur.com: Giant fish pictures from the Far East

Pics from Japan, China, and Korea.

Giant ocean sunfish forklifted away

You're going to need to turn your head sideways for this unfortunate picture: That's an ocean sunfish, also known as Mola Mola, of the order tetraodontiformes. That picture was taken near Zamboanga City in the Philippines. These beasties can reach a ton and are most likely the largest bony fish in the world. And, according to this, they may contain... Read more... (0)

Miss Vietnam brings fish to festival

At first glance, you might ask, "Why is Miss Vietnam Mai Phuong Thuy carrying a fish?" At second glance, you might ask, "What is she doing with her hand? Is she, you know, carrying something else? Is the Miss a former Mr.?" I urge you to purge all such thoughts from your mind and enjoy the spectacle of a... Read more... (0)

Frilled shark video from Japan

Courtesy of the Awashima Marine Park (via CNN, via some guy video taping his TV) comes this video of a "frilled shark", a rarely seen species known as Chlamydoselachus anguineus. AP report here. They normally live thousands of feet beneath the waves, and they've changed little over time and are thus sometimes supposedly called a "living fossil". The one in... Read more... (0)

Paris Hilton, cell phones, and a huge tuna

Welcome to the winner of the 2006 "Make up your own joke" competition! In this photo, Paris Hilton is shown posing with a huge tuna fish and a cellphone at the Tsukiji Honganji Temple in Tokyo on December 22, 2006. Hilton and the fish were brought in by NTT DoCoMo and Motorola for the launch of their new FOMA M702iS... Read more... (0)

Huge tuna vs. Japanese Fish Market workers

One day you're a huge tuna swimming pacifically in the sea. The next moment, you're sushi. Well, not quite. In between there are a few intervening steps, as the following video shows. Warning: do not watch this video if you do not have a strong constitution. No, really. Watch this one instead.... Read more... (1)

World's smallest fish: a carp from Indonesia

The world's smallest fish has been located living in an acidic peat swamp on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia. It has been termed the "Paedocypris progenetica" and is a member of the carp family. Despite being only .31 inches (7.9 millimeters), the males have "exceptionally large muscles" and "enlarged pelvic fins". Boffins speculate these are used for the... Read more... (2)

Japan attacked by giant jellyfish!

Driven by the hand of man - including the dreaded Global Warming - and carried by ocean currents, monstrous jellyfish weighing up to over 400 pounds and with a diameter of over six feet are invading the Pacific side of Japan, Asahi reports. The squiggly beasts - named Echizen kurage or Nomura's jellyfish and a very distant relative of... Read more... (7)

Giant Great White Shark in New Zealand

Pictured above is New Zealand commercial fisherman Warwick Harris posing with the jaws of a massive Great White Shark that got caught in his nets off the Waikato coast. It was 15 feet long and weighed in at 3300 pounds. The remainder of the shark is with scientists who are investigating the matter. Harris was fishing for snapper and... Read more... (0)

Giant squid captured on film (Tokyo, Japan)

Giant squid researcher Tsunemi Kubodera from Tokyo, Japan's National Science Museum as well as Kyoichi Mori of the Ogasawara Whale Watching Association have captured the first pictures of a live squid. All previous pics of these mysterious beasts have been of ones that washed ashore or were otherwise non-functioning. They captured more than 500 images using a baited hook.... Read more... (5)

Gigantic Beluga whale welcomes esteemed visitors to Hakkeijima Sea Paradise

As near as I can figure out from their web site, the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise in Yokohama outside of Tokyo employs trained Beluga whales as greeters at their fun ocean park, much the same as America's own Wal*Mart does, except with sea creatures instead of humans. Shown above is one of their "Sea Ambassadors" singing to a visitor in... Read more... (1)