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 ...

U.S. oarfish sightings are rare events that have long been tied to myths about earthquakes and natural disasters but ...

Oarfish sightings have long been linked to earthquakes in popular myths but scientists are now exploring whether these ...

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

A huge oarfish washed up near La Paz in Baja California Sur in 2020. Credit: Fernando Cavalin. On a sunlit beach in Lanzarote ...

Oarfish are rarely documented by scientists, but one was seen this month by a group visiting a beach in Mexico.

On Feb. 9, beachgoers captured a video of a rare “doomsday” oarfish on the shores of Baja California Sur, Mexico. According ...

A rare oarfish, often called the "doomsday fish," was spotted in Mexico—just days after another deep-sea creature, a deep-sea ...

Beachgoers were shocked to discover an oarfish — a creature whose appearance, according to folklore, can be a good omen or a ...

It's pretty rare to encounter an oarfish in the wild when you consider they spend most of their lives thousands of feet below ...

An oarfish -- a super rare fish commonly referred to as the "doomsday fish" -- recently washed ashore on a beach in Mexico, ...

An oarfish, known as a "doomsday fish," washed ashore in Mexico, fueling superstitions of an impending natural disaster.