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 ...

The giant oarfish is the longest bony fish in the world and can grow up to 36 feet long. This elusive species lives in the ocean’s “twilight zone,” 650 to 3,300 feet below the surface. Oarfish swim in ...

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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 fish was spotted in San Diego, one of just 20 that have washed up in California in over a century. Kayakers and snorkelers came across a 12-foot oarfish in La Jolla Cove last weekend, ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Another oarfish has made its way from the deep sea to the coast of San Diego County. Scripps Institution of Oceanography researchers stumbled upon the rare fish, considered ...

SAN DIEGO (KUSI) — Another oarfish has made its way from the deep sea to the coast of San Diego County in Southern California. Scripps Institution of Oceanography researchers stumbled upon the rare ...

Imagine if there were a creature capable of providing a warning that an impending cataclysmic seismic event was about to occur. For centuries, mythology has said such a creature exists in the form of ...

The oarfish is one of the longest bony fish in the ocean, yet it spends most of its life far beyond human observation. When it appears near the surface, stories quickly link the sighting to ...

Scientists have documented the first-ever record of an oarfish (Regalecus russellii) in Sri Lanka, a 2.6-meter (8.5-foot) specimen caught off the country’s western coast. The find expands the known ...