A rarely seen deep-sea fish with large eyes and a ribbon-like body surfaced off a Southern California coastline, a school said. The discovery has been exciting for researchers but has caused concern ...

A team of science-minded kayakers and snorkelers in La Jolla Cove had the encounter of a lifetime when a dead oarfish washed to the ocean surface on Aug. 10, 2024. This deep-sea fish is incredibly ...

Photo courtesy Mountain and Sea Educational Adventures A 15-foot dead oarfish was found floating in the waters off of Santa Catalina Island's Sandy Beach on Monday. Island Harbor Patrol found the ...

SAN DIEGO — Children press their faces against the glass, marveling at the serpentine creature stretched out before them. "Oh, that's so long! Eleven feet!" one young visitor exclaims, comparing the ...

An exceedingly rare fish said to be the harbinger of doom was found washed up on the western shore of Australia Monday. Seen as a bad omen in Japanese mythology, portending the appearance of dangerous ...

Oarfish are usually deep-sea dwellers. Scientists have a theory as to how it ended up in La Jolla Cove off California. Zach Josephson via Unsplash Scientists have been studying the dead 12-foot ...

Annie MacAulay heard of the legendary deep sea monster for 20 years and then she finally saw it: an oarfish so long that it spanned the length of about three people. An oarfish isn’t necessarily a ...

It's called an oarfish. This one is about 17 feet long. They're rarely seen because they typically live only in very deep open ocean. It's believed that oarfish dive over 3000 feet deep which means ...

A group of friends was expecting to have a totally normal kayak adventure in the waters near La Jolla Cove when they stumbled upon an extraordinary sea creature: an almost 4-meter (12-foot) long sea ...

Scientists have documented the first-ever record of an oarfish (Regalecus russellii) in Sri Lanka, a 2.6-meter (8.5-foot) specimen caught off the country’s western coast. The find expands the known ...