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

Taking a blobfish out of water is like “heating something that’s glued together and the glue starts to melt.” The blobfish went viral with this photo, but underwater they look like a ...

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

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 ...

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

Don't judge a blob by its cover. Once dubbed the world's ugliest animal for its soft, lumpy appearance, the blobfish has made a stunning comeback: it was crowned this week as Fish of the Year by a ...

Over a decade after being relegated to the “world’s ugliest animal,” the blobfish made a resounding comeback and earned the “fish of the year” title in New Zealand. The decidedly ...