Timingila Fish

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Timingila Fish

Region of origin: India

Literally “to swallow a whale,” the timingila was known as an aquatic creature supposedly large enough to do just that in a single gulp. It was never specifically decsibed but was mentioned in the Mahabharata and several other Sanskrit texts, and has since been compared to a shark- or whale-like creature which dwarfed any known species, similar to stories of the leviathan.

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