A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...

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 common name. The findings from this study will provide ...

Evolving roughly 27 different times in the long history of fish, bioluminescence -- the biological production of light -- is one of the flashier survival tools used for luring prey, communication, and ...

The researchers studied tissue from over 120 fish. They found that 50 to 60 percent of their diet came from ocean’s twilight ...

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 ...

The fish also have clusters of red spines sticking out from it’s back ... The Orange County Register reports that the oarfish a rarely seen deep-sea creature was found Monday.

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 ...

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 ...