Occasionally, however, these deep-sea dwellers make a rare appearance near the surface ... when an unusual fish was spotted in daylight. The sight left onlookers mesmerised and provided an ...

Evolving roughly 27 different times in the long history of fish, bioluminescence—the biological production of light—is one of ...

Marine life in the deep ocean can take decades to recover from the impact of deep-sea mining for rare metals, new research shows.

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 ...

A rare kind of fish called the Pacific football fish was ... It contains numerous pores that capture photobacteria from the deep-sea environment. The US Fish and Wildlife Service states that ...

Scientists have shared footage from a rare sighting of a bluntnose sixgill shark spotted near the Phoenix Islands in the ...

An old video of a camera footage catching a ‘bright fast-moving object’ deep in the sea allegedly ‘off the coast of Japan’ ...

The study found that a deep-sea mining test in 1979 in the North Pacific still showed lower levels of biodiversity than ...

Just two kilometres off the coast of Tenerife, the underwater photographer David Jara Boguñá first spotted the otherworldly deep-sea fish. Researchers haven’t determined why this fish ... “We simply ...