The oarfish, also known as the “doomsday fish,” is one of the strangest and rarest creatures of the sea. For centuries, sailors and fishermen believed that spotting this long, ribbon-like fish was a ...

A deep-sea oarfish, a species that spends its life hundreds of feet below the ocean surface, washed ashore on a beach in Baja ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A viral video of a shimmering oarfish spotted along the Baja California Sur beach in Mexico earlier this month is making the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A group of divers encountered a rare giant oarfish off the coast of Taiwan. The viral video, originally published by diving ...

A group of friends exploring the waters off La Jolla Cove on Saturday came across a sea creature unlike anything they’d ever seen: a 12-foot-long rare fish from the depths of the ocean. The giant ...

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 ...

An elusive oarfish, dubbed the "Doomsday Fish," was recently caught off the Tamil Nadu coast, sparking local concern. This deep-sea creature, rarely seen near the surface, is associated with impending ...

This one had circular bites taken out of it, likely by a cookiecutter shark. Divers in Taiwan recently caught an extremely rare sight of an oarfish off the coast of New Taipei’s Ruifang District.

Oarfish washing ashore on Pacific beaches probably aren't warning of an impending earthquake after all, according to a new study. Japanese folklore says that when these long, serpentlike silver fish ...

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?

An 18-foot-long oarfish found dead in Southern California was filled with parasites, according to researchers at UC Santa Barbara who dissected the serpent-like fish last Thursday. Around two dozen ...