Flying fish

This time the crossing only cost me 56 Euros for the 30 minute ride. The boat was not even half full, so I could sail virtually immediately and set off for Latronico, for it was here in 1982 that a fossil was found at an altitude of 980m ASL.
It looks like a swordfish but has been classified as an istioforide (genus Makaira) which lived in the miocenico sea 10 to 30 million years ago. Its abut 235cm long and 95 high and the skeleton can just about be made out - after seeing a drawing of it! The detail photo shows a flipper.
And no, I didn't draw an outline on the relic, I copied the print on an information panel.
This species of fish was common in the tropical Atlantic and more rarely in the Med. If I said Ernest Hemingway "The old Man and the Sea" you can guess what we call these fighting fish nowadays.Read more