This predator feeds on deep-sea invertebrates and marine fish. It uses photophores, or light-emitting organs, to attract prey before cracking it in its jaws. To make the ribbon sawtail even ...

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 ...

This is the only fish that produces red bioluminescence Many deep-sea creatures give out blue light called bioluminescence - but the stoplight loosejaw emits red light as well. This light is invisible ...

Deep-sea fish thrive in extreme pressure, darkness, and pollution, revealing new survival mechanisms and threats.

Deep-sea fish adapt to some of the most extreme conditions on Earth. New research analyzing their evolution finds the same ...

and a lens that lets the light pass through," says Clardy. A small fish only known to the Red Sea, V. mabahiss lives deep underwater and is seldom encountered by people, so much so that it has no ...

Evolving roughly 27 different times in the long history of fish, bioluminescence -- the biological production of light -- is one of the flashier survival tools used for luring prey, communication, and ...

(NEXSTAR) — It is not common for the oarfish, a deep-sea, ribbon-shaped creature ... meters long and gives off light. As the legend tells it, these prophetic fish appeared on the coasts of ...

The oarfish, or "doomsday fish," surfaced in Mexico in February 2025, igniting superstitions about disasters. These rare deep-sea fish dwell 200 to 2,000 meters deep. The frilled shark ...

An undergraduate University of Hawai‘i researcher was working in a laboratory in 2022 when she came upon a peculiar looking ...

Tracing the evolution of deep-sea fishes, the researchers' analysis revealed that the eight lineages of fish species studied entered the deep-sea environment at different times: The earliest ...