The body of a rare deep-sea-dwelling fish measuring 12 feet was found in waters off the San Diego coast last week, exciting marine experts. Oarfish are the longest recorded bony fish in the world ...

The body of a rare deep-sea-dwelling fish measuring 12 feet was found in waters 0ff the San Diego coast this week, exciting marine experts. Oarfish are the longest recorded bony fish in the world ...

It was a lucky find. Some kayakers in La Jolla came across an oarfish. The University of San Diego says it's a rarely seen deep sea dweller. In fact, they say only 20 oarfish have washed up since ...

The head of a dead, deep-sea oarfish washed up on Grand View Beach in Encinitas is shown on Nov. 7, 2024.

A team of science-minded kayakers and snorkelers in La Jolla Cove had the encounter of a lifetime when a dead oarfish washed to the ocean surface on Aug. 10, 2024. This deep-sea fish is incredibly ...

ENCINITAS, Calif. — For the second time this year, a rare deep-sea oarfish has washed ashore in San Diego County, giving scientists a chance to study the species without plumbing the depths of ...

A deep-sea creature steeped in folklore has once again washed ashore in California. On Nov. 6, a researcher on an Encinitas beach spotted an oarfish, measuring 9 to 10 feet long.

These deep-sea dwellers typically inhabit waters 500 to 1,000 feet below the surface, where sunlight barely penetrates. Starting as tiny hatchlings just millimeters long, oarfish develop ornate ...

A group of divers encountered a rare giant oarfish off the coast of Taiwan. The viral video, originally published by diving instructor Wang Cheng-Ru in June, shows the group coming upon the deep ...

As it turns out, they were both wildly wrong. The creature lying on the sand was an oarfish: an eel-shaped deep-sea marine creature also known as the “doomsday fish” in Japanese folklore.