The roughly 10-foot-long dead oarfish — rumored to be a sign of impending earthquakes — was found stretched out on the rocky shoreline of Grandview Beach in Encinitas by UC San Diego’s ...

The context: 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.

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. This month's sighting ...

A rare 9-foot oarfish, often called the “sea serpent,” was discovered washed up on Grandview Beach in Encinitas, California, on November 6. This marks the third sighting of such a creature in ...

A dead oarfish found along the Southern California coast marks the state's third sighting of the so-called "doomsday fish" this year. The roughly 10-foot oarfish was discovered on Nov. 6.

The 9-foot oarfish was found on the shores of Grandview Beach on Nov. 6 by Alison Laferriere of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California at San Diego, according to a ...

stumbled upon the 9.5-foot long fish during a beach walk. "I thought, 'Wow, this is amazing. I can't believe there's one right here,"' Laferriere recounted. Oarfish sightings are exceptionally ...