Surfers spotted a paddlefish on the shores of a Mexican beach. This long sea creature is called the doomsday fish, because according to legend it is a harbinger of earthquakes and other natural disasters..

The massive fish, about the length of a surfboard, had a silver-blue body with a stunning red fin running down its back.. However, surfers noticed that her tail was damaged, writes DailyMail.

This is the first paddlefish seen in 2025. According to surfers who found a strange creature in the southern part of the Baja California peninsula, the fish was still alive. So they put her on their boards and carried her back to the ocean.

“They say these fish appear when there is a very strong tsunami,” said a local resident when he saw the “harbinger of disasters” on the beach..

Scientists have not proven such facts. However, one paddlefish was spotted in California a month before it was disturbed by a magnitude 7.0 earthquake last year. And 20 more doomsday fish washed ashore months before a devastating tsunami hit Japan, killing more than 15,000 people and causing a magnitude 9.0 earthquake in March 2011.

Legend has it that paddlefish live beneath the Japanese islands and float to the surface to warn people of an upcoming earthquake.. But these creatures are found all over the world, living at depths of 200 to 1,000 meters, researchers say.

Biologists describe the paddlefish's body as having no scales and its skin having a slimy, silvery protective coating known as guanine.. Due to their shape, these creatures resemble sea serpents and are a sign of the future in Japanese mythology, where they are known as "