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The Terrible Dogfish
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<p>The Terrible Dogfish is a <a href="/facts/Squalidae/pthXYVsM">dogfish</a>-like <a href="/facts/Sea_monster/BSvexkYS">sea-monster</a>, which appears in <a href="/facts/Carlo_Collodi/L1YUV1NE">Carlo Collodi</a>'s 1883 book <i><a href="/facts/The_Adventures_of_Pinocchio/yeaoY3dD">The Adventures of Pinocchio</a></i> (<i>Le avventure di Pinocchio</i>) as the final <a href="/facts/Antagonist/AssYgnt1">antagonist</a>. It is described as being larger than a five-story building, a kilometer long (not including its tail) and sporting three rows of <a href="/facts/Teeth/Wc6IqwVf">teeth</a> in a mouth that can easily accommodate a <a href="/facts/Train/0mkFQDg9">train</a>. So fearsome is its reputation, that in Chapter XXXIV, it is revealed that the Dogfish is nicknamed "The <a href="/facts/Attila_the_Hun/DwD4Y8v9">Attila</a> of fish and fishermen" (<i>L'Attila dei pesci e dei pescatori</i>). </p>