Back in 2011, 20 oarfish were discovered on Japanese beaches shortly before one of the most powerful earthquakes in the country’s history. “They’re a kind of open ocean, generally deep-sea fish.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...