This 18ft oarfish was discovered last week - and now there's another one.
A giant oarfish has washed up on the shores of California - the second to do so in less than a week.
This specimen appeared in the Oceanside area of San Diego on Friday just five days after an 18ft-long example of the deep sea fish washed up near Catalina Island.
The oarfish is thought to live at depths of between 700 and 3,000ft making sightings of the species extremely rare.
Scientists are excited to learn more about this rare fish and are also planning to conduct tests in the hope of ascertaining just what caused this particular specimen to die.
"We are very intrigued," Russ Vetter, director of southwest Fisheries Science Centre told the New York Daily News.
"This is an opportunity for... the scientific community to study different aspect of this fish that we know absolutely nothing about."
He added: "We will be very interested - if it has any stomach contents - (in) what it was eating.
"At first glance, it was pretty heavy so it didn't appear to be starving."
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