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 ...

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

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

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

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.

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

new video loaded: Deep-Sea Oarfish Is Spotted on Mexican Beach A rarely seen oarfish appeared in shallow water in Baja California Sur, Mexico, on Feb. 9, surprising beachgoers. The deep-sea ...

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