This predator feeds on deep-sea invertebrates and marine fish. It uses photophores, or light-emitting organs, to attract prey ...

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 ...

Sleep in fish may look different from humans, but rest is essential for survival. Here’s what experts have to say about fish ...

LURKING beneath the ocean’s surface are a host of terrifying creatures most humans will only see in their nightmares. Yet, ...

A shark research organization came face to face last week with a deep sea creature who isn't known for seeing the light of day ... a couple of hours with the fish before it died, Oceanographic ...

Genomic analysis showed that deep-sea fish have lower mutation rates but ... while others expanded genes for dim-light vision. Most fascinating of all was a mutation in a gene called rtf1 that ...

and a lens that lets the light pass through," says Clardy. A small fish only known to the Red Sea, V. mabahiss lives deep underwater and is seldom encountered by people, so much so that it has no ...

In haunting footage captured about 1,604 feet (489 meters) under the sea, cameras captured the tubular crustaceans latched onto the fish’s back. Though the parasites’ presence might trigger your gag ...

A new species of flapjack octopus, with massive eyes and blood-red tentacles, has been discovered from a deep-sea canyon off ...