Name: Giant oarfish (Regalecus glesne) Where it lives: In the mesopelagic zone of the Mediterranean Sea, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. What it eats: Krill, plankton, crustaceans and squid.

Two rare oarfish, giant deep-sea serpents long believed by locals to be a harbinger of earthquakes and tsunamis, have been caught off the Japanese island of Okinawa. Ecology Feb 26, 2019 ...

Researchers have dissected the two deep-sea oarfish that washed ashore in southern California this month. So far, they found that one was teeming with worms and the other was about to have babies ...

Researchers in California dissected the giant oarfish that washed ashore earlier in October. What they found could help scientists better understand these elusive and mysterious “sea serpents.” ...

Scientists who cut open the rare 18-foot oarfish that washed ashore in Catalina a few weeks ago discovered the elusive California sea monster hosted its own little monsters inside. The oarfish ...

A giant oarfish washed ashore near San Diego, California, in September 1996, and a group of U.S. Navy SEALS held up the 23-foot-long sea creature. As for its reputation of being a warning sign of ...

Footage of a giant oarfish is rare, because they usually are found 200 to 1,000 feet below the surface. Watch the video above to see the oarfish encountered by the group.

Oarfish don't have any visible teeth and instead filter water to eat tiny prey. "You could put your hand into the mouth, around the mouth, down the throat and not even scratch your skin," Vetter said.