The deep ocean is home to the largest ecosystem on Earth, but we’ve only explored a tiny portion of it. Despite the enormity of our seas, new species are discovered all the time thanks to ...

For centuries, sailors told terrifying stories of glowing sea serpents rising from the depths — enormous silvery creatures ...

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In 2025, scientists at the California Academy of Sciences officially named 72 new species — beetles, sea slugs, fish, flowering plants, and a bird that has been hiding in plain sight in one of the ...

Meet the “ghost fish,” a phantom of the abyss. Here’s how we found the first ever proof of its existence just a few years ago. The deep sea is a part of the world that very few humans get the chance ...

A new study offers the first direct evidence that deep-dwelling mesopelagic fish, which account for up to 94% of global fish biomass, excrete carbonate minerals at rates comparable to shallow-water ...

Older than dinosaurs, these 8 ancient fish existed millions of years earlier and some still survive today in oceans, rivers and deep waters.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. orange roughy fish on ice at market - Fotokon/Shutterstock It's long been a staple on seafood menus and in frozen fish fillets at ...

Two deep-sea oarfish - nicknamed "doomsday fish" for their folkloric ties to earthquakes - washed up near the shoreline in ...

A deep-sea fish species with unusual cheek patterns has been discovered in the South China Sea after it was listed on online seafood markets. The fish has been named Branchiostegus sanae because its ...

An "odd-looking" deep-sea fish recently washed ashore on an Oregon beach to the surprise of a local aquarium. The Seaside Aquarium in Seaside, Oregon, published pictures of the dead fish in an April ...

WASHINGTON — For more than a century, biology textbooks have stated that vision among vertebrates - people included - is built from two clearly defined cell types: rods for processing dim light and ...