Rare ‘Doomsday Fish’ Considered ‘Bad Omen’ Washed Up on California Beach, Leaves Scientists Baffled A rare deep-water oarfish ...

In Japanese mythology, the deep-sea-dwelling oarfish is a harbinger of impending disaster. For scientists in California, ...

If one oarfish landing on a beach is a sign of a disaster to come, how bad will it be if three wash up in quick succession?

An oarfish, also known as a "doomsday fish," was spotted on Grandview Beach in Encinitas, California by a PhD candidate at ...

UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography Tuesday was awarded a five-year, $40 million award from the U.S. Army ...

A dead oarfish spotted along the Southern California coast marks the state's third sighting of the so-called "doomsday fish" ...

Geophysicist Barry Hirshorn—now with Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego—was on ...

Yet another oarfish -- a super rare fish commonly referred to as the "doomsday fish" -- was recently found dead in California ...

Kerstin Bergentz is a fifth-year PhD candidate studying physical oceanography at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC ...

If one oarfish landing on a beach is a sign of a disaster to come, how bad will it be if three wash up in quick succession?

Above: Video of dolphins and a surfer wading in bioluminescence off the coast of San Diego in early November. SAN DIEGO (FOX ...