For the second time in under a week, an oarfish has been discovered in California.
Unlike last week's sea monster, which was pulled ashore by 15 people, this oarfish washed ashore on Oct. 18 in Oceanside, C.A. according to USA Today.
The fish measured in at 14 feet long and drew a crowd of 75 people.
Oceanside police contacted SeaWorld San Diego, The Scripps Research Institute and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to see what exactly washed ashore, according to the newspaper U-T San Diego.
"The call came out as a possible dead whale stranded on the beach, so we responded and saw the fish on the sand right as it washed up," Oceanside police officer Mark Bussey said to NBC News.
Oarfish are usually never seen, but in under a week two have been discovered in California.
On Oct. 13, a snorkeler diving off Catalina Island discovered an 18-foot oarfish. The specimen was seen 30 feet deep and died of "natural causes" according to the Associated Press.
Tissue samples of the fish and video footage were sent to be examined by biologists at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
"We've never seen a fish this big," Mark Waddington, senior captain of the Tole Mour, the Catalina Island Marine Institute's sail training ship, said at the time. "The last oarfish we saw was three feet long."
Oarfish can grow up to 50 feet, making them one of the biggest fish in the entire world.
Sightings of the fish are so rare that when one was seen in 2010 it was covered by the Discovery Channel.
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