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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Jabed Ahmed

Mysterious deep-sea ‘doomsday fish’ found washed up on California beach

A rare deep sea fish, regarded as a harbinger of doom, has washed up on a southern California shore.

The Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, said one of its PhD students discovered an oarfish on a beach in Encinitas last week that was around nine to ten feet long.

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