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 ...

Oh, for heaven’s hake. A massive fish known as a “harbinger of doom” was found sulking off the coast of California last weekend — marking yet another end-of-the-world forewarning in recent weeks. To ...

While Japanese folklore links oarfish sightings to earthquakes, scientists say there is no scientific evidence to support this claim. The Scripps Institution of Oceanography will study the oarfish to ...

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 ...

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 — ...

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 ...

Mexico beachgoers were treated to a rare sighting earlier this month of a shimmering oarfish, native to the deep sea and seen in Japanese folklore as a signal of impending doom. Video shows the marine ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — The “doomsday fish” that washed up on a San Diego beach late last year is now on display at San Diego’s Birch Aquarium, giving visitors a unique chance to see the rare oarfish ...