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 ...

Footage recorded of the rare fish shows the intricacies of its iridescent, ribbon-looking body and long, wispy red fins.

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 ...

A group of beachgoers spotted a rarely-seen fish in the shallow waters of Mexico. Oarfish live in the depths of the ocean between 660 - 3,300 feet deep. The footage recorded shows the intricacies ...

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 ...

Beachgoers were shocked to find a rarely seen oarfish swimming in the shallow waters of a Baja California Sur beach in Mexico ...