A riotous photography collection from a recent underwater mission off the coast of Chile shows new and fascinating deep-sea ...

Evolving roughly 27 different times in the long history of fish, bioluminescence—the biological production of light—is one of ...

Tracing the evolution of deep-sea fishes, the researchers' analysis revealed that the eight lineages of fish species studied entered the deep-sea environment at different times: The earliest ...

Video shows the remarkable and menacing-looking fish swimming out of its deep-sea depths in light-filled water, allowing it to be stunningly observed outside its pitch-black habitat. "It is a true ...

Also, deep-sea oarfish face threats from human activities, including pollution and climate change. Recent appearances of the oarfish, an uncommon fish, off the Mexican coast in Baja California Sur ...

Oarfish are filter feeders meaning they eat krill, plankton and other small creatures ... report stating that “relationship between deep‐sea fish appearances and earthquakes was hardly ...

with some seeing the fish as a feminist icon or an Icarus-like figure who swam too close to the sun. The reaction shows our views of the deep sea—long ignored or seen as a realm of monsters ...

The fish was collected while scientists created a baseline of life in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, before deep-sea mining might impact the area. “I hope this discovery emphasizes how much more ...