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 ...

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 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 ...

The sight of the oarfish in shallow waters is bad news in Japanese folklore. Here's the meaning behind the 'doomsday' fish.

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 ...

Oarfish have gained a reputation as "doomsday fish" due to their perceived association with disasters after rare sightings.