So, blobfish don’t really look like melting ice cream in their natural environment. Underwater, they’re shaped like tadpoles: ...

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

Deep-sea fish adapt to some of the most extreme conditions on Earth. New research analyzing their evolution finds the same ...

A riotous photography collection from a recent underwater mission off the coast of Chile shows new and fascinating deep-sea ...

Once dubbed the world's ugliest animal for its soft, lumpy appearance, the blobfish has made a stunning comeback: it was ...

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

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet – where creatures glow and life survives under crushing ...

An undergraduate University of Hawai‘i researcher was working in a laboratory in 2022 when she came upon a peculiar looking ...

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The blobfish won ‘fish of the year’ in New Zealand ... Mountains to Sea Conservation Trust While the slimy sea creatures do thrive deep below the water’s surface, their population and ...

Outside the water, blobfish look like jiggly mounds of unstructured flesh. But when they’re swimming around their deep-sea habitats, they look like fairly standard fish, with wide heads that ...