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5-Foot-Long ‘Cannibal Fish’ with ‘Sharp Fang-Like Teeth’ Washes Up in Rare Sighting on Oregon Beach
A longnose lancetfish washed ashore in a rare appearance in Seaside, Oregon. Seaside Aquarium staff examined the 5-foot-long ...
Eerie ‘doomsday fish’ stirring interest at La Jolla’s Birch Aquarium
Scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography were able to preserve an 11-foot, 2-inch oarfish that washed up in ...
San Diego's Birch Aquarium reveals rare 'doomsday fish' at new exhibit
Birch Aquarium visitors can see the 11-foot oarfish that was found near Leucadia last November. The new limited-time, ...
East Bay Times9d
An ugly dead fish missing one eyeball is drawing crowds at California aquarium
The creatures also stirred interest because, in popular Japanese folklore, oarfish have long been called “doomsday fish” or “harbingers ... for them — not as mythical creatures, but ...
Rare ‘doomsday’ oarfish on display at Birch Aquarium after washing up in San Diego
The "doomsday" oarfish that washed up on a San Diego beach in November 2024 is now on display at Birch Aquarium.
The Scientist7y
Amazonian Fish Genome Challenges Long-Held Assumptions About Asexual Reproduction
The fish—like their namesake, the mythical Amazonian warriors—are all female. They reproduce asexually, a process long thought to be detrimental to a species’s long-term survival. But new findings, ...