The gulper eel ( Saccopharynx lavenbergi), also called a pelican eel, is roughly a meter of tail and mouth. This unusual fish ...

Telescope fish are deep-sea dwelling creatures, found in tropical and subtropical regions of the ocean at depths between 500 ...

Down here, the only flashes of light come from animals’ bioluminescent bodies. Deep sea anglerfish, whose huge mouths hold ...

The creature, a species that is more commonly found in deep waters, was spotted just a few miles off the coast of Cornwall by ...

Male and female whale sharks - filter-feeding marine behemoths - grow at different rates, with females doing so more slowly but getting much larger than the guys, according to research that offers ...

Have you ever wondered how some animals glow in the dark? Bioluminescence is a natural ability in particular living creatures to produce light. It happens through a chemical reaction inside their ...

Thousands of feet down off the coast of Japan swam a pink sea creature with “dark yellow eggs.” Out of the shadows, something encircled it and pulled it to the surface. Sifting through their catch, ...

The creature, a species that is more commonly found in deep waters, was spotted just a few miles off the coast of Cornwall by diver Charles Hood, who was swimming with blue sharks at the time ...

When an unfamiliar pink fish appeared more than 10,000 feet down in the outer reaches of Monterey Canyon in 2019, scientists with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute were able to document the ...

Mikey's golden pygmygobies were "typically found deep within caves" of offshore coral reefs, the study said. The fish were seen swimming "along the surface of cave roofs and walls in small groups of ...

A new species of seasonal killifish was discovered in Sertão do Riacho stream in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, according to a study. Gomes, B. P., Sarmento-Soares, L. M., Martins-Pinheiro, R. F., & Leite, ...