In February, researchers from conservation organization Condrik Tenerife were about two kilometers off the coast of Tenerife ...
Deep-sea fish thrive in extreme pressure, darkness, and pollution, revealing new survival mechanisms and threats.
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 ...
with some seeing the fish as a feminist icon or an Icarus-like figure who swam too close to the sun. The reaction shows our views of the deep sea—long ignored or seen as a realm of monsters ...
"This could be the first recorded sighting in the world of an adult black devil or abyssal anglerfish (Melanocetus johnsonii) ...
A black seadevil anglerfish has captured − and broken − hearts across the globe after the small deep-sea creature swam to ... herself sobbing over the rare fish's last brave swim and ...
or specimens spotted by submarines during deep-sea scientific expeditions," Condrik Tenerife wrote online, underscoring how rare this sighting was. This fish with "devil" in its name is black as ...
It encompassed nearly the entire depth range of deep-sea fish habitats (1,218–7,730 meters) and yielded 11 deep-sea fish species from six major groups. By analyzing genetic data from these deep ...