since they spend a lot of time in a habitat “on the continental shelf to the deep sea,” says Matthew Davis, a professor of biological sciences who specializes in fish evolution, at St. Cloud ...

The specimens were the bycatch of a fishing vessel in the South China Sea, which researchers later bought to study.

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

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

New research has uncovered a crucial clue to understanding the spread of "barrens" in the Great Southern Reef, which are ...

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 ...

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 ...