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

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

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

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 ...

A new species of anglerfish found in a deep-sea mining zone has been listed ... “The first time I examined this fish, it was very clearly something not previously seen in taxonomic literature ...

Yet we know very little about their inhabitants ... The team zeroed in on roughly 230 genes in deep-sea fish that boost survival under pressure. Most of these help repair DNA damage. Others increase ...