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

The creature was sighted along the Mexican coast, causing alarm among residents, and the images quickly flooded social media.

An oarfish, a super rare creature commonly referred to as the “doomsday fish,” washed ashore on a beach in Mexico, leaving ...

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

A rare fish has washed up on a Canary Islands beach, and some people have shared superstitions that the appearance of the ...

A group of beachgoers made a rare sighting when they found an oarfish swimming alongside a beach in Mexico. The water animal, ...

An elusive oarfish was spotted in the shallow waters of Baja California Sur, along Mexico's Pacific Coast. Known for its long ...

A huge oarfish washed up near La Paz in Baja California Sur in 2020. Credit: Fernando Cavalin. On a sunlit beach in Lanzarote ...

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

On Feb. 9, beachgoers captured a video of a rare “doomsday” oarfish on the shores of Baja California Sur, Mexico. According ...

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