A member of the Scripps Oceanography team spotted the dead fish outside of San Diego, California. The fish was estimated to ...

As for why people consider the oarfish to be a “doomsday” fish, NBC News explains that — as oarfish typically dwell in the ...

A long, ribbon-shaped oarfish, rarely seen and believed to signal disaster, has washed up on California’s shores for the ...

A rare deep-sea oarfish, also called a sea serpent, washed ashore near San Diego in Encinitas, and Scripps scientists are ...

This month's sighting was only the 21st time the fish has been documented to have washed up in California since 1901, according to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

A coastal research and monitoring program led by UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography has been awarded a ...

UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography was awarded a five-year, $40 million award for a coastal research and ...

An elusive deep-water oarfish considered to be a harbinger of bad news was discovered on the shores of Encinitas, California last Friday.

SAN DIEGO ( KUSI) — Another oarfish has made its way from the deep sea to the coast of San Diego County in Southern ...

A rare, massive fish known as the harbinger of doom has washed up on a California shore — for the second time in just three ...

Last week, Scripps Institution of Oceanography PhD candidate Alison Laferriere found the deceased 9.5-foot specimen at ...

Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego works to understand and protect the planet and find solutions to our most pressing environmental challenges. Humankind faces catastrophic changes in ...