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  2. Oarfish - Wikipedia

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    Oarfish that washed ashore on a Bermuda beach on 3 March 1860: the fish was 16 ft (4.9 m) long and described at the time as a sea serpent. [36] The slender oarfish, (竜宮の使い "Ryūgū-No-Tsukai"), known in Japanese folklore as the 'Messenger from the Sea God's Palace', is said to portend earthquakes. [26]

  3. “Bad Omen”: Rare 12-Foot Oarfish Found In San Diego Waters ...

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    Kayak adventurers found an incredibly rare, 4-meter-long “sea serpent” washed ashore in San Diego. It was the latest in only 20 encounters in California waters since 1901. The post “Bad Omen ...

  4. Two 'incredibly rare' sea serpents seen in Southern ... - AOL

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    The deep-sea fish are considered "incredibly rare" since less than 25 have been seen in Southern California waters in over a century, Ben Frable, Scripps' in-house fish expert and a museum ...

  5. Giant oarfish - Wikipedia

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    Giant 'Sea Serpent' Caught on Camera, Discovery News at YouTube. Footage of an oarfish swimming in the mesopelagic layer. "Mythical sea creature captured on film", article about efforts to ban deep-sea bottom trawling with video of R. glesne; Recent Examinations of the Oarfish, Regalecus glesne, from the North Sea.

  6. 'Incredibly rare' dead sea serpent surfaces in California ...

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    An "incredibly rare" fish was found at La Jolla Cove recently, making it the 20th time an oarfish has been spotted in California in the last century. 'Incredibly rare' dead sea serpent surfaces in ...

  7. Sea serpent - Wikipedia

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    In Nordic mythology, Jörmungandr (or Midgarðsormr) was a sea serpent or worm so long that it encircled the entire world, Midgard. [4] Sea serpents also appear frequently in later Scandinavian folklore, particularly in that of Norway, such as an account that in 1028 AD, Saint Olaf killed a sea serpent in Valldal in Norway, throwing its body onto the mountain Syltefjellet.

  8. What is the ‘doomsday’ fish? 3 sightings of rare oarfish in ...

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    Oarfish, also known as a sea serpent, was spotted and recovered from a beach in Encinitas, California just last week. It measures between 9 and 10 feet, is much smaller than the one collected by ...

  9. Ikuchi - Wikipedia

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    According to Tankai ("Sea of Stories", 1795) by Tsumura Sōan , the ikuchi (ゐくち) is an extremely long fish dwelling in the deep waters off Hitachi Province (now Ibaraki Prefecture). It has only been spotted at night, sometimes rearing out of water and slinking over a ship, taking a long time to complete its passage, and leaving a residue ...