When designing a large underwater robot that could swim silently to avoid startling sea creatures, roboticist Rob Shepherd considered the unusual swimming system of oarfish, the meters-long fish whose ...

Inside the oarfish's dorsal fin, hundreds of rods swivel in full circles. Sections of fin move in opposite directions thus propelling the fish through the water.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A group of divers encountered a rare giant oarfish off the coast of Taiwan. The viral video, originally published by diving ...

Learn how an oarfish’s hundreds of joystick-like fin rays help it swim and could inspire underwater robots that move without startling fish.

Oh, for heaven’s hake. A massive fish known as a “harbinger of doom” was found sulking off the coast of California last weekend — marking yet another end-of-the-world forewarning in recent weeks. To ...

Sailors spotting sea serpents might not have been telling tall tales. The oarfish, with its blank eyes, feathered crest, and snakelike body that can grow more than 25-feet long, is a dead ringer for ...

The elusive deep-water oarfish – considered to be a harbinger of bad news – was spotted yet again on the shores of Encinitas, California. It was the state’s third spotting of the species in the last ...

Those familiar with oarfish know that they live at great depths, are mostly seen dead and washed up on shore, and are often referred to as a doomsday fish because seeing one is a warning sign of ...

Is there about to be an apocalypse? A rare “doomsday” oarfish has washed ashore yet again — this time in Australia, sparking fears that a catastrophe could be around the corner. “I just knew it was ...

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Despite its ominous reputation and centuries of superstition, the mysterious oarfish is actually a rare and surprisingly beautiful sight for anyone lucky enough to see it. For hundreds of years, ...