All these characteristics make many of them look more like something out of a horror movie than the adorable creatures we are ...

Mesopelagic fish, long overlooked in ocean chemistry, are now proven to excrete carbonate minerals much like their ...

Hogfish can not only change colors but also "see" with their skin. Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu ... The Mariana Trench is home to some weird deep sea fish, and they all have the same ...

Looking more closely at 101 genomes, they found that three different lineages of deep sea fish had extra copies of genes for seeing in dim light. Among these, the silver spinyfin took the cake.

A new study offers the first direct evidence that deep-dwelling mesopelagic fish, which account for up to 94% of global fish ...

A new genetic analysis of more than three dozen fairy wrasse species details the roughly 12 million years of evolution that produced their vast assortment of shapes, colors and behaviors.

The deep sea contains more than 90% of the water in our oceans, but only about a third of all fish species. Scientists have long thought the explanation for this was intuitive -- shallow ocean ...

Anemonefishes are a group of damselfishes "that exclusively live symbiotically with sea anemones," researchers said in a July 10 study published in the peer-reviewed journal ZooKeys. They are ...

Only 20 oarfish have washed up in the state since 1901, making the sighting of the deep-sea fish “incredibly rare,” according Scripps' in-house fish expert Ben Frable.

Rare violet sea snails, Janthina, have appeared on La Jolla Shores, the first time in ten years they appear on the San Diego ...