A California woman was walking her dog on Grandview Beach in Encinitas when she came across a very rare, deep-sea fish. Alison Laferriere, who happens to be a PhD candidate at Scripps Institution of ...

The discovery of an 18-foot oarfish off Catalina Island thrilled the staff at Catalina Island Marine Institute. Now they’re wondering: What do you do with the carcass of a very rare 18-foot-long fish?

Is there about to be an apocalypse? A rare “doomsday” oarfish has washed ashore yet again — this time in Australia, sparking fears that a catastrophe could be around the corner. “I just knew it was ...

The deaths of two giant oarfish that washed up off California within the span of a week may have been caused by an ocean current that the weak-swimming creatures could not overcome, a scientist said.