Not Great: Two Doomsday Fish washed ashore in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

Two oarfish, the deep-sea creatures that folklore has nicknamed “doomsday fish,” washed ashore in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico at the same time this week.

Not one doomsday fish. Two doomsday fish. Simultaneously. On the same beach.

I mean seriously, we cannot catch a break.

Two Doomsday Fish Wash Ashore in Cabo

Two massive deep-sea oarfish washed ashore in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. The rarely seen fish—often called “doomsday fish”—can grow up to 30 feet long and typically live at depths of around 3,000 feet in the ocean.

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For the uninitiated, oarfish live at depths of around 3,000 feet and almost never come anywhere near the surface. Seeing even one is considered extremely rare.

There have been a handful of sightings along the Cabo coastline over the past few hundred years. A handful. In hundreds of years and now two of them showed up on the same beach on the same day like they had plans together.

These things grow over 30 feet long. They have crimson dorsal fins. They look exactly like the sea serpents that drove ancient sailors completely insane.

They are called doomsday fish because people believe they crawl up from the deep before earthquakes and tsunamis hit. Scientists say there is no evidence of that link and honestly good for them for staying calm because I am not doing that right now.

Have you looked outside lately? Have you seen what is going on in the world? We have got enough problems. The last thing anyone needed was two giant prehistoric-looking nightmare creatures dragging themselves out of the ocean at the same time in Mexico.

Yet here we are…

Two sisters on a beach day in Cabo spotted two doomsday fish struggling in the shallow water and jumped in to help push them back into the ocean.

Very heroic, I guess. More likely a futile effort.

The footage does not make clear whether the fish survived. I’m not sure if you want to kill a doomsday fish or if it’s better to just get them back in the water and pretend like it never happened. What’s the protocol there?

Anyways, what the footage does make clear is that two doomsday fish showed up uninvited and nobody seems nearly panicked enough about it.

We are monitoring the situation closely.

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