SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — The “doomsday fish” that washed up on a San Diego beach late last year is now on display at San Diego’s Birch Aquarium, giving visitors a unique chance to see the rare oarfish ...

A rare oarfish found at Ocean Beach on Tasmania's west coast. (Photo credit: Sybil Robertson) In two separate incidents this week, rare deep-sea oarfish - nicknamed "doomsday fish" - have washed up on ...

Scientists have no answers as to why two of the largest bony fish known to man washed ashore in Southern California in the span of a few days. Days after a rare oarfish measuring 18 feet was ...

A striking 11-foot oarfish on display in the new exhibit Oarfish: Recent Discoveries from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Collection at the Birch Aquarium. (Photo Courtesy of the Birch ...

SAN DIEGO — San Diego residents can now come face-to-face with the serpent of the sea, the Oarfish, for a limited time at Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. Birch ...

It's called an oarfish. This one is about 17 feet long. They're rarely seen because they typically live only in very deep open ocean. It's believed that oarfish dive over 3000 feet deep which means ...

A 13-foot oarfish appears within a week of the last discovery. This Oct. 18, 2013 image provided by Mark Bussey shows an oarfish that washed up on the beach near Oceanside, Calif. This rare, snakelike ...