Alison Laferriere, a doctoral student at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, made the unusual find while walking her dog.

A so-called "doomsday fish" has washed up on a Southern California beach — typically an extremely rare occurrence, but this is the second time this year it has happened. The rare oarfish found ...

The black-footed ferret is an endangered species, with only approximately 370 alive in the wild “Saving rare species from ...

Scripps Institution of Oceanography researchers stumbled upon the rare fish, considered the largest vertebrate in the world’s oceans, at Grandview Beach in Encinitas earlier this month.