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  2. Extremely rare "doomsday fish" found off California coast - AOL

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    Oarfish have a reputation as harbingers of disasters — and this one was spotted just two days before a 4.4 quake rattled Los ... according to UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

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

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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. A rarely seen deep sea fish is found in California, and ... - AOL

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    The silvery, 12-foot-long (3.6-meter) oarfish was found last weekend by a group of snorkelers and kayakers in La Jolla Cove, north of downtown San Diego, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography ...

  5. Rare 'Doomsday Fish' Found Off the Coast of Southern ... - AOL

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    On Saturday, Aug. 10, the group encountered the 12-foot oarfish while exploring La Jolla Cove near San Diego, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography shared in a Facebook post featuring photos of ...

  6. Oarfish - Wikipedia

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    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] The oarfish has been nicknamed the "doomsday fish" because, historically, appearances of the fish were linked with subsequent natural disasters, namely earthquakes or tsunamis.

  7. Giant oarfish - Wikipedia

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    Other common names include Pacific oarfish, king of herrings, ribbonfish, and streamer fish. R. glesne is the world's longest ray-finned fish . Its shape is ribbon-like, narrow laterally, with a dorsal fin along its entire length, stubby pectoral fins, and long, oar-shaped pelvic fins , from which its common name is derived. [ 3 ]

  8. '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 ...

  9. Lampriformes - Wikipedia

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    Lampriformes / ˈ l æ m p r ɪ f ɔːr m iː z / is an order of ray-finned fish.Members are collectively called lamprids (which is more properly used for the Lampridae) or lampriforms, and unite such open-ocean and partially deep-sea Teleostei as the crestfishes, oarfish, opahs, and ribbonfishes.