On a sunlit beach in Lanzarote, Canary Islands, a silvery ribbon of a fish washed ashore on February 10, 2025, catching the ...

Rare deep-sea ‘doomsday fish’ washes up on Canary Islands coast - The oarfish – regarded as a harbinger of doom – was ...

Beachgoers in Mexico were treated to a rare sighting earlier of a shimmering oarfish, native to the deep sea and known as a ...

Explore why oarfish are called 'Doomsday Fish' and their alleged link to earthquakes. Discover scientific perspectives, myths ...

Japanese folklore indicates the fish belonged to servants of the sea god Ryūjin. Hence the fish is also known as "ryugu no tsukai," which translates to "messenger from the sea god’s palace." ...

The marine photographer who captured the footage said it could be the world's first recorded sighting of a black seadevil ...

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

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

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

reigniting fears that these deep-sea fish signal earthquakes or tsunamis. In Japanese folklore, they are seen as “Messengers of the Sea God,” believed to surface before major seismic events.