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 rare and almost mythical creature from the deep sea has washed up on a California beach in the form of an oarfish measuring ...

Considered to be the origin of the sea serpent tale, giant oarfish are a species yet to be largely researched by scientists.

In a recent development it has been known that the rare oarfish which is also known as the legendary doom fish and is hugely believed as a signal of disaster washed up on the beaches of California and ...

A rare oarfish, long associated with doomsday myths, has washed ashore in California for the second time this year, sparking ...

The discovery was made by PhD candidate Alison Laferriere from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The oarfish was found ...