When Ted Judah goes scuba diving off the coast in Monterey Bay, he normally swims at the surface to the area above the dive site and then descends. But on the morning of Dec. 30, the water was ...

The oarfish, a rare deep-sea creature often referred to as the "harbinger of death" or the "doomsday fish" has once again surfaced (for the third time this year), stirring up a mix of superstitions ...

Part of the allure of deep-sea fishing is that you never know what you might encounter at sea. But one can be reasonably certain that nobody would expect to encounter a 10-foot oarfish under attack by ...

A group of beachgoers spotted a rarely-seen fish in the shallow waters of Mexico. Oarfish live in the depths of the ocean between 660 - 3,300 feet deep. The footage recorded shows the intricacies of ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The silvery carcasses of two giant oarfish were discovered along the Southern California coast last week, baffling scientists and gaining a growing online following who gawked at ...

An 18-foot-long oarfish washed up last week on Catalina Island. It was a rare occurrence until another oarfish popped up dead in Oceanside on Friday. The two oarfish were big attention grabbers for ...

Divers made an amazing discovery in the waters off the northeast coast of Taiwan: an enormous deep sea oarfish. Video taken in late June shows the creature, over six feet long, dotted with what ...

OCEANSIDE, California For the second time in less than a week, a "sea serpent" has attracted gawkers on a Southern California beach. This time the rare, snakelike oarfish washed up Friday afternoon in ...

A video of two 15-foot-long oarfish swimming in shallow waters along the Mexican coastline is making a big splash in the marine world. The oarfish, a prehistoric-looking creature that can grow up to ...

The uniquely vulnerable West Antarctic Ice Sheet holds enough water to raise global sea levels by 5 meters. But when that will happen—and how fast—is anything but settled. The Louisiana Department of ...

A dead oarfish with a belly full of krill washed up on Santa Catalina Island this week, marking a rare sighting of the deep-sea creature and the largest to appear on the island in years, experts say.