For the second time in less than four months, an incredibly rare fish has washed ashore in the San Diego area, alarming scientists and raising some hard-to-answer questions. The oarfish, which can ...

The myth of the oarfish bridges science and superstition. Ancient Japanese tales describe it as a sea serpent that rises before chaos, while modern biologists study it as one of the longest bony fish ...

A rare deep-sea oarfish discovered last year at Grandview Beach in Encinitas is now on display at the Birch Aquarium in La Jolla. It’s one of two of the creatures that were once thought of as sea ...

A group of beachgoers encountered an interesting-looking fish as it surfaced in shallow waters on a beach in Mexico. The silvery, iridescent oarfish was captured on video washing onto the shores of ...

Whale watchers in northern California were treated with a sighting of a very pale orca nicknamed Frosty. A video taken by ...

LOS ANGELES — If one oarfish landing on a beach is a sign of a disaster to come, how bad will it be if three wash up in quick succession? A silvery, 10-foot-long creature, the oarfish has fueled ...

The elusive deep-water oarfish - considered to be a harbinger of bad news - was spotted yet again on the shores of Encinitas, California. It was the state's third time spotting the species in the last ...

ENCINITAS, Calif. — For the second time this year, a rare deep-sea oarfish has washed ashore in San Diego County, giving scientists a chance to study the species without plumbing the depths of the ...

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 ...

A Ph.D. candidate at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla found a rare deep-sea oarfish washed ashore last week in Encinitas, the second time this year such a fish has been found in San ...