In the American city of Virginia Beach, Virginia, a rare prehistoric fish with a long snout and bony plates on the back has washed up to the coast. An unusual animal is reported by the Daily press.
Long-snout sturgeon was noticed by people walking along the coast of the ocean. They filmed the one and a half meter fish with their phones, while its decomposing carcass was carried back into the water by waves.
Long-snout sturgeon is considered a living fossil. These fish appeared over 120 million years ago and caught the dinosaurs. Since the beginning of the 19th century, they began to be massively caught for the sake of delicious caviar. The species is now endangered.
This is a large fish, its length can reach 2.5-3.5 meters, and its weight is 160 kilograms. There are references to the capture of giant fish weighing 270 kilograms and even 365 kilograms.
Earlier, the media drew attention to a video filmed by a diver near Roatan Island on Honduras, where the fish walked on the fins along the bottom of the ocean. He photographed a short-necked sea bat.