Part of the allure of deep-sea fishing is that you never know what you might encounter at sea. But one can be reasonably certain that nobody would expect to encounter a 10-foot oarfish under attack by ...

Kelp, that can’t be good. A rare, massive fish known as the harbinger of doom has washed up on a California shore — for the second time in just three months. The roughly 10-foot-long dead oarfish — ...

According to the Ocean Conservancy, in some parts of the world, oarfish "are seen as being harbingers of bad news, particularly disasters or destruction" Erin Clack is a Staff Editor for PEOPLE. She ...

Divers made an amazing discovery in the waters off the northeast coast of Taiwan: an enormous deep sea oarfish. Video taken in late June shows the creature, over six feet long, dotted with what ...

A group of beachgoers spotted a rarely-seen fish in the shallow waters of Mexico. Oarfish live in the depths of the ocean between 660 - 3,300 feet deep. The footage recorded shows the intricacies of ...