Scientists have documented the first-ever record of an oarfish (Regalecus russellii) in Sri Lanka, a 2.6-meter (8.5-foot) specimen caught off the country’s western coast. The find expands the known ...

Guy Catches a Fish That Looks Like Glass and People Think It’s AI Generated originally appeared on PetHelpful. People who fish in the deep blue sea rarely catch anything unusual, but that’s exactly ...

The oarfish is one of the ocean’s most mysterious and elusive creatures – and in some cultures, it’s believed to be a harbinger of disaster. In this video, we explore the legends and science behind ...

SAN DIEGO — Children press their faces against the glass, marveling at the serpentine creature stretched out before them. "Oh, that's so long! Eleven feet!" one young visitor exclaims, comparing the ...

A striking 11-foot oarfish on display in the new exhibit Oarfish: Recent Discoveries from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Collection at the Birch Aquarium. (Photo Courtesy of the Birch ...

A rare deep-sea oarfish discovered last year at Grandview Beach in Encinitas is now on display at the Birch Aquarium in La Jolla. It’s one of two of the creatures that were once thought of as sea ...

What do you do with a bizarre-looking dead fish that’s missing an eyeball and could be mistaken, at a distance, for a monster rattlesnake? If you’re the Birch Aquarium in La Jolla, you preserve the ...

What do you do with a bizarre-looking dead fish that’s missing an eyeball and could be mistaken, at a distance, for a monster rattlesnake? If you’re the Birch Aquarium in La Jolla, you preserve the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — The “doomsday fish” ...

A viral video of a shimmering oarfish spotted along the Baja California Sur beach in Mexico earlier this month is making the rounds on social media, with many wondering what the rare sighting of the ...

Mexico beachgoers were treated to a rare sighting earlier this month of a shimmering oarfish, native to the deep sea and seen in Japanese folklore as a signal of impending doom. Video shows the marine ...