A three-metre long giant oarfish that is thought to herald calamity and disaster has washed up onto a Tasmanian beach. Tony ...

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 ...

A rare fish has washed up on Tasmania's Ocean Beach, and some people have shared superstitions that the appearance of the creature signals impending doom for the world. (Not alarming at all...) Sybil ...

SAN DIEGO — Scientists at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography have completed a necropsy on a deep-sea oarfish, which washed up earlier this month, providing a rare look and scientific ...

A striking 11-foot oarfish on display in the new exhibit Oarfish: Recent Discoveries from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Collection at the Birch Aquarium. (Photo Courtesy of the Birch ...

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 ...

What do you do with a bizarre-looking dead fish that’s missing an eyeball and could be mistaken, at a distance, for a monster rattlesnake? If you’re the Birch Aquarium in La Jolla, you preserve the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (NEXSTAR) — It is not common for the oarfish ...

(NEXSTAR) — It is not common for the oarfish, a deep-sea, ribbon-shaped creature, to wash up on shore, but when it does, some believe it could mean that something bad is going to happen. The oarfish ...

An oarfish — a super rare fish commonly referred to as the “doomsday fish” — recently washed ashore on a beach in Mexico, leaving beachgoers stunned. The fish typically surface when they are dead, ...

Looking out over the smooth, clear waters of Playa El Quemado this month, a wiggling object caught Robert Hayes’s attention as it headed toward the shoreline. Hayes had been walking the beach in the ...