A deep-sea creature steeped in folklore has once again washed ashore in California. On Nov. 6, a researcher on an Encinitas beach spotted an oarfish, measuring 9 to 10 feet long. The fish typically ...

A dead oarfish found along the Southern California coast marks the state's third sighting of the so-called "doomsday fish" this year. The roughly 10-foot oarfish was discovered on Nov. 6. at a beach ...

3:17 p.m. Nov. 21, 2024: An earlier version of this article said oarfish are bottom feeders. They are filter feeders. If one oarfish landing on a beach is a sign of a disaster to come, how bad will it ...

This month's sighting was only the 21st time the fish has been documented to have washed up in California since 1901, according to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. A 10-foot-long oarfish from ...

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 ...

A dead oarfish, an "incredibly rare" creature considered a symbol of impending doom in Japanese folklore, was recently spotted along the Southern California coast just months after another surfaced in ...