At the start of this year, fishermen in the Andaman Sea off Thailand reeled in an oarfish. The fact it was caught at typical fishing depths ignited fears among locals in La-ngu, Satun province ...

Oarfish typically live at depths of up to 3,300 ... Brenjeng Caayon, whose fishing boat MB Starlight made the catch at 2am on ...

3:17 p.m. Nov. 21, 2024: An earlier version of this article said oarfish are bottom feeders. They are filter feeders. If one oarfish landing on a beach is a sign of a disaster to come, how bad ...

On Nov. 6, a researcher on an Encinitas beach spotted an oarfish, measuring 9 to 10 feet long. The fish typically swim at depths of 300 to 3,000 feet and are rarely seen on the surface.

A rare oarfish, long associated with myths of impending disaster, has washed up on a California beach for the second time this year. The nearly 10-foot-long creature was discovered last week on a ...

The rare oarfish found on Grandview Beach in Encinitas measured roughly 9 to 10 feet and was spotted by a doctoral candidate at Scripps Institute of Oceanography, the school wrote on social media.

ECHIZEN, Fukui Prefecture--Few people ever get a glimpse of the mysterious oarfish in the wild, the longest bony fish to inhabit deep waters. But by capturing footage of two of the creatures on ...