A silver fish with many sharp teeth against a black background Many of the fish lurking in the depths of the ocean resemble the alien villains of horror films, with gargantuan teeth, glow-in-the-dark ...

Far below the ocean’s surface, where sunlight disappears and pressure reaches crushing levels, some of the planet’s strangest ...

It's long been a staple on seafood menus and in frozen fish fillets at the grocery store. But dig a little deeper and orange roughy (also known as deep sea perch) is actually one of the most ...

These three fish are freaks, phantoms and mysteries of the deep. Here’s what we’ve learned from the rare glimpses we’ve had of their lives. The deep sea is one of Earth’s final frontiers. Given its ...

When Ted Judah goes scuba diving off the coast in Monterey Bay, he normally swims at the surface to the area above the dive site and then descends. But on the morning of Dec. 30, the water was ...

Editor’s note: The study described in this news article was retracted on October 29, 2020. Prompted by a study posted at preprints.org questioning the origin of the eggs found in the mouth of a ...

Researchers say the new footage of the deep sea fish may be the first live sighting of the creature in daylight near the ...

Illustration of the silver spinyfin (Diretmus argenteus)—the vertebrate with the highest number of opsin genes. Image: (Alexandra Viertler, University of Basel) A newly discovered visual system in ...

Scientists have uncovered why big predators like sharks spend so much time in the ocean’s twilight zone. The answer lies with ...

The eyes of little-understood fish that lurks in the barely-lit deep sea have evolved to see in color, scientists believe. The work, published in the journal Science, calls into question past studies ...

Dead fish, full of a lifetime of mercury, may function as a vessel of this toxin to the deep ocean. While mercury occurs naturally in the environment, human industrial activities have rapidly ...