The specimens were the bycatch of a fishing vessel in the South China Sea, which researchers later bought to study.

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 ...

A new species of anglerfish, “Gigantactis paresca,” discovered by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa oceanographers, was recently announced among the top 10 remarkable new marine species of 2024 by the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...