Most undergrads don't get the chance to work with museum-preserved specimens of deep sea anglerfish. Then again, Rose Faucher isn't most undergrads. "The fish world is actually pretty small, and it ...

Meet the Atlantic wolffish, green humphead parrotfish, and other unusual species with extraordinary adaptations.

The bumpy snailfish, discovered 10,000 feet down off the coast of California, shows that not all denizens of the abyss are frightening. By Alexa Robles-Gil For an animal, surviving in the ocean’s ...

What started as a quiet night offshore turned into a record-challenging moment for a Florida angler fishing 120 miles off the Alabama coast. Around 4 a.m. on Aug. 1, Taylor Guidry stepped onto the ...

A pair of images authentically shows the same species of anglerfish, one of which is small enough to fit in the palm of a hand. In late September 2025, a Reddit thread (archived) claiming to show "a ...

An angler has landed an ultra-rare “prehistoric” fish off the Cornish coast – which is seldom seen by humans. Fishing enthusiast Owen Mates had sailed ten miles out from Falmouth Bay, Cornwall when he ...

Mesopelagic fish, long overlooked in ocean chemistry, are now proven to excrete carbonate minerals much like their shallow-water counterparts—despite living in dark, high-pressure depths. Using the ...