A rarely seen creature called an oarfish, historically regarded as a harbinger of doom, has been spotted for the second time this year off California’s coast. The ‘doomsday fish’ was found by a PhD student from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California,

For the second time this year, an oarfish has washed up on a California beach. The 'doomsday fish' is considered a harbinger of doom in Japanese folklore.

A rare doomsday fish (oarfish) was spotted by scientists of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at Grandview Beach in southern California

For the second time this year, a deep-sea oarfish has washed ashore in San Diego County, giving scientists a rare chance to study the species.

A member of the Scripps Oceanography team spotted the dead fish outside of San Diego, California. The fish was estimated to be 9 to 10 feet in length, which was much smaller than the one recovered in La Jolla in August.

PhD candidate Alison Laferriere from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego discovered the nearly 10-foot-long oarfish on a beach in Encinitas, in southern California, last week. Oarfish are elusive creatures that dwell in the deep ocean — often as far as 3,

Kelp, that can’t be good. A rare, massive fish known as the harbinger of doom has washed up on a California shore — for the second time in just three months. The roughly 10-foot-long dead oarfish — rumored to be a sign of impending earthquakes — was found stretched out on the rocky shoreline of Grandview Beach in Encinitas by UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography last week.

Mysterious deep-sea ‘doomsday fish’ found washed up on California beach - They are often referred to as ‘doomsday fish’ because of their mythical reputation as earthquake predictors