A second so-called "doomsday" fish, the rare deep-sea oarfish, has been discovered on the beaches of San Diego. For the second time this year, an oarfish cadaver has hit Southern California ...

A rare deep sea fish, regarded as a harbinger of doom, has washed up on a southern California shore. The Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, said one of its ...

Oarfish, which can grow up to 20 feet long, are elusive deep-sea creatures that typically live in the mesopelagic zone, about 3,300 feet below the ocean surface, where light cannot reach.

Their depictions appear to describe oarfish. Oarfish generally live in the upper layers of the ocean depths, from about 300 feet to almost 3,000 feet underwater. Scientists call this section of ...

The current group of oarfish washing ashore "may have to do with changes in ocean conditions and increased numbers of oarfish off our coast," Ben Frable, manager of the Scripps Oceanography Marine ...

A rare deep sea fish, regarded as a harbinger of doom, has washed up on a southern California shore. The Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, said one of ...