Thanks to a yellow pigment that filters out sunlight, barreleyes can't be fooled by a common deep-sea camouflage tactic.

The day’s deep-sea research was over when a fish with a transparent head came into view. Research Specialist Shannon Johnson ...

Deep-sea creatures also live in Sagami Bay, right in front of Shonan. Why are they near the shore?Sagami Bay is a sea that ...

These three fish are freaks, phantoms and mysteries of the deep. Here’s what we’ve learned from the rare glimpses we’ve had of their lives. The deep sea is one of Earth’s final frontiers. Given its ...

The anglerfish was initially collected during a UH Mānoa Department of Oceanography-led research cruise in 2021 to the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, a vast area of abyssal ocean southeast of Hawaiʻi. The ...

During a recent expedition aboard the research vessel David Packard, MBARI scientists encountered a rarely seen barreleye ...

An incredibly rare deep-sea fish with an eerie transparent head was documented on a recent research mission done by the ...

A scary-looking creature with “devil” in its name was spotted close to the surface off Tenerife, a Spanish island. By Victor Mather Strange things live in the depths of the ocean. Even the light of ...

Fish species living in the deep sea feature a surprisingly large range of body shapes that evolved in different ways and at different rates depending on where the fishes live in the ocean, new ...

A new species of anglerfish, Gigantactis paresca, discovered by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa oceanographers, was recently announced among the top 10 remarkable new marine species of 2024 by the ...