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

A rarely seen oarfish appeared in shallow water in Baja California Sur, Mexico, on Feb. 9, surprising beachgoers. The ...

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.

The creature was sighted along the Mexican coast, causing alarm among residents, and the images quickly flooded social media.

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

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

Why are oarfish considered bad omens? As the 'messenger of the sea god' or Ry*g* no tsukai in Japanese mythology, the oarfish ...

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 group of beachgoers made a rare sighting when they found an oarfish swimming alongside a beach in Mexico. The water animal, ...