The giant herring was found in a small fishing village Bovallstrand

The giant herring was found in a small fishing village Bovallstrand

Rarely there is herring that has a body length of up to 3.5 meters. This giant herring found off the west coast of Sweden. “The first Herrings roughly the same size found in Sweden about 131 years ago,” said the marine museum.

Regalecus glesne known as herring or oarfish giant king was found dead in a condition in a small fishing village, Bovallstrand, on the Swedish west coast, about 90 kilometers from the Norwegian border.

“There’s something big to float. At first we thought it was a big piece of plastic, but when we observe, there were her eyes. I then walked over and check out a very strange figure these fish,” said Kurt Ove Eriksson, the man who discovered the animal, told the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.

Regalecus fish including rare animal. Fish have bones that can reach 12 meters in length.

“Last time, the king of herring found in Sweden in 1879,” says the museum of the House of the Sea in Lysekil, where the fish are taken.

“We do not know much about this species. However, we believe that the creature lived in the deep ocean, at least at a depth of 1000 meters. Many people believe that fish comes from the mythology of the sea dragons or mythological stories of sea animals like the Loch Ness Monster,” he said.

“Fish is dead and frozen at this museum has a wound on his body and lost along the dorsal fin is unique and beautiful,” says the museum.

Now the fish into the additional collections of the museum, for this kind of sea monster, which will be exhibited later this year.