The clip had sent the internet into a frenzy, as according to Japanese folklore, the oarfish is often referred to as the "doomsday fish" due to the long-standing belief that its appearance ...

Scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography were able to preserve an 11-foot, 2-inch oarfish that washed up in ...

Japan's folklore has mentions of oarfish as the nickname of "Ryugu no tsukai," or "sea god's palace messenger." Recent sightings of the elusive oarfish, often called the "Doomsday Fish," have ...

Deep-sea “doomsday fish” are mysteriously washing up on shores in Mexico, California, and the Canary Islands—sparking fears that an earthquake or tsunami could be near. In Japanese folklore ...

(Doomsday fish surfaced from the depths of the Philippine ... appearances and earthquakes was hardly found” and that the Japanese folklore is “deemed to be a superstition attributed to the ...

TOKYO, July 6. /TASS/. The founder of the Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo, responsible for the deadly 1995 sarin gas attack in Tokyo, was executed by hanging together with some of his ...