Luis Miguel Gutierrez Bringas, a sea-diving tour operator, captured video of a massive sunfish in its natural habitat off the ...

How far would you go for a good meal? For some of the ocean's top predators, maintaining a decent diet requires some ...

The blobfish, described as the world's ugliest animal, has been voted fish of the year in New Zealand. The creature, which grows to about 12 inches (30cm) long, is known affectionately as Mr ...

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

A robot submarine has shared footage of the world's deepest point as it continues its search for deep-sea 'aliens' ...

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

In the vast darkness of the deep sea, where finding a mate can be as challenging as surviving the crushing pressure, anglerfishes have evolved one of nature’s most extraordinary reproductive ...

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 ...

A rare anglerfish, usually found thousands of feet deep, has been discovered near the ocean surface, leaving scientists searching for answers. Could climate change, ocean currents, or rising ...

As I have written elsewhere, the anglerfish’s extreme sexual dimorphism and parasitism, along with its unsettling anatomy, have made it the “iconic ambassador of the deep sea”.