A riotous photography collection from a recent underwater mission off the coast of Chile shows new and fascinating deep-sea creatures—including a “mystery mollusk,” a bioluminescent jellyfish and a “s ...

For the first time, a deep sea angler fish was spotted last week in daylight. The incident was iconic, especially for the shark research organization Condrik Tenerife. This shark and stingray ...

The silver spinyfin has an extraordinary diversity of rod photopigments, which researchers propose may allow it to see color in the deep, dark sea. After a year teaching an algorithm to differentiate ...

A new species of anglerfish, “Gigantactis paresca,” discovered by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa oceanographers, was recently ...

It encompassed nearly the entire depth range of deep-sea fish habitats (1,218–7,730 meters) and yielded 11 deep-sea fish species from six major groups. By analyzing genetic data from these deep ...