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

Every adaptation that Bathydevius has developed to live in the midnight zone, classified as the deep waters that exist ...

They're tiny, blobby, butt-shaped, and glow in the dark. What the heck are they? Scientists are still figuring them out.

Bathydevius caudactylus swims through the ocean's midnight zone with a large gelatinous hood and paddle-like tail, and lights up with brilliant bioluminescence. The team published a description of ...

The ocean holds many bizarre deep-sea monsters ... Down here, we enter the midnight zone, where no natural light can reach. You might also pass Tiburonia granrojo, or 'Big Red', one of the ...

When a male anglerfish finds his mate in the pitch-black expanse of the deep sea, he uses his sharp teeth to latch onto her ...

“We can't say what the cause was that pushed the anglerfishes into the deep open ocean,” says Brownstein. “However, we can say that their distinctive adaptation to life in the midnight zone, sexual ...