A group of kayakers and snorkelers found a rare, deep-sea fish called an oarfish floating in La Jolla Cove on Saturday. Why it matters: This 12-foot sea serpent-like creature is only the 20th ...

The oarfish in Encinitas was "smaller" than the one observed in San Diego, measuring between 9 and 10 feet, ... one of the largest collections of deep-sea fish in the world. ...

Giant oarfish on California coast 00:30. Kayakers and snorkelers exploring the Southern California coast spotted an extremely rare oarfish, nicknamed a "doomsday fish" since they are seen in some ...

The roughly 10-foot oarfish was discovered on Nov. 6. at a beach in Encinitas, around 25 miles north of San Diego. ... one of the largest collections of deep-sea fish in the world.

A rarely seen oarfish appeared in shallow water in Baja California Sur, Mexico, on Feb. 9, surprising beachgoers. The deep-sea-dwelling oarfish is believed to be the world’s largest bony fish ...

Its reputation as a harbinger of doom is the species’ biggest claim to fame, with some recent anecdotal evidence fueling this theory — like the finding of more than 20 oarfish on the shores of ...

The 9-foot oarfish was found on the shores of Grandview Beach on Nov. 6 by Alison Laferriere of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California at San Diego, according to a ...

He said he caught the oarfish in a small boat by longline fishing and not by using a fixed net, making the haul even more incredible. He said the largest oarfish weighed 19kg and the smallest 7kg.

The massive oarfish — which is the world’s largest bony fish, capable of growing to 56 feet long — washed up on the coast of Isla Talcán in Chile’s Desertores Islands.

Scientists at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography have completed a necropsy on a deep-sea oarfish, which washed up earlier this month, providing a rare look and scientific data, it ...