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

For centuries, the oarfish has been feared as a harbinger of doom, with sightings often linked to earthquakes and tsunamis.

Beachgoers in Mexico were treated to a rare sighting earlier of a shimmering oarfish, native to the deep sea and known as a ...

Many creatures on the Earth have the ability to predict changes in nature. Birds flying in large flocks with loud calls and ...

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

Oarfish are rarely documented by scientists, but one was seen this month by a group visiting a beach in Mexico.

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

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

The oarfish, which is also referred to as the doomsday fish, is a deep-water creature and spends most of its time floating ...

The sight of the oarfish in shallow waters is bad news in Japanese folklore. Here's the meaning behind the 'doomsday' fish.

A rare oarfish, often tied to myths predicting earthquakes and tsunamis, has washed up on Playa Quemada beach in Lanzarote.