Several Facebook accounts made posts linking the supposed sighting of oarfish to natural disasters and apocalpytic prophecies ...

A clip of a deep sea oarfish washed up on a beach has circulated online, prompting false claims that its presence is a warning sign of impending natural disasters such as earthquakes or tsunamis.

A viral video of a rare oarfish surfacing in Mexico has reignited fears linked to Japanese folklore, which considers the deep-sea creature a harbinger of natural disasters like earthquakes and ...

Japan warns of a catastrophic megaquake along the Nankai Trough, with the potential to trigger massive tsunamis, destroy infrastructure, and claim over 300,000 lives.

The fish can also breathe air, allowing them to survive for several days out of water if their skin stays moist.

Imagine descending into the ocean’s deep, dark twilight zone, a realm straight out of science fiction. Here, in a place where ...

Conservationists are telling anglers to cut the head off a predatory, reptile-looking fish that can breathe air if they find one. The northern snakehead is an invasive fish species with a fitting ...

"Mr. Blobby" is a blobfish discovered in 2003 off the coast of New Zealand. The preserved specimen is now housed at the Australian Museum in Sydney. jamasca66 via Flickr under CC BY-NC 2.0 Squishy ...

The creatures cruised the world’s oceans with features we often associate with marine mammals, such as coats of blubber and the ability to birth live young April 17, 2025 8:00 a.m. Most of what ...