The second "doomsday" fish has washed up on a California beach in the past three months.
Last week, researchers from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, discovered a dead three-meter-long oarfish, also known as the king of herring, which is often regarded as a harbinger of earthquakes and other natural disasters. This marks the second such finding in California within the last three months.
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The oarfish (Regalecus russelii) is often referred to as the "fish of the Apocalypse" because it inhabits depths ranging from 200 to 1000 meters and rarely rises to the surface.
According to Japanese mythology, the appearance of an oarfish on the shore is a sign that an earthquake is imminent. Two years prior to the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that led to the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in 2011, dozens of these fish were found along the beaches of Japan.
