A rarely seen oarfish appeared in shallow water in Baja California Sur, Mexico, on Feb. 9, surprising beachgoers. The ...

In Japanese folklore, appearances of these elusive marine creatures dubbed ‘doomsday fish’ are believed to foreshadow ...

Footage recorded of the rare fish shows the intricacies of its iridescent, ribbon-looking body and long, wispy red fins.

Beachgoers in Mexico were treated to a rare sighting earlier of a shimmering oarfish, native to the deep sea and known as a ...

An oarfish, a super rare creature commonly referred to as the “doomsday fish,” washed ashore on a beach in Mexico, leaving ...

Instead of swimming off, the fish did a “big, 15-foot loop and came back on the beach,” Hayes said. After the fisherman tried to redirect the oarfish, only to have it circle back several times ...

A group of beachgoers made a rare sighting when they found an oarfish swimming alongside a beach in Mexico. The water animal, ...

Oarfish are rarely documented by scientists, but one was seen this month by a group visiting a beach in Mexico. By Amanda Holpuch The elusive oarfish, a creature nicknamed the “doomsday fish ...

Beachgoers were shocked to find a rarely seen oarfish swimming in the shallow waters of a Baja California Sur beach in Mexico ...

In September, a second oarfish was found dead in Orange County's Huntington Beach in September according to Ben Frable, an in-house fish expert for the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.