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 ...

Over a decade after being relegated to the “world’s ugliest animal,” the blobfish made a resounding comeback and earned the “fish of ... the slimy sea creatures do thrive deep below ...

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 ...

In this new study, scientists from Chinese Academy of Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, and BGI-Qingdao (a gene research institute) explored deep-sea fish habitats from the central ...

What a glorious moment it is!” open image in gallery Blobfish, a gelatinous deep-sea fish, grows up to 30cm and lives at depths of 600-1,200m off Australia and Tasmania Ten fish species competed ...

Scientists surveying deep-sea life off an island in southeast Asia ... are a poorly known shark species first discovered at fish markets in Indonesia in the early 2000s, researchers said.