By Liz Kimbrough A transparent goby fish drifted through the darkness, its skeleton visible through paper-thin skin. Nearby, ...

For decades, oceanographers have known that something did not add up in the deep sea. Huge predators like sharks and tunas ...

At the bottom of the world’s trenches, there’s a fish that shouldn’t exist. Here’s how it earned the title of the ...

A silver fish with many sharp teeth against a black background Many of the fish lurking in the depths of the ocean resemble the alien villains of horror films, with gargantuan teeth, glow-in-the-dark ...

Scientists have uncovered why big predators like sharks spend so much time in the ocean’s twilight zone. The answer lies with ...

Bobbing along on the research vessel Western Flyer just outside California’s Monterey Bay, marine biologist Karen Osborn and her colleagues were hauling deep-sea fish to the surface for cataloging and ...

It's long been a staple on seafood menus and in frozen fish fillets at the grocery store. But dig a little deeper and orange roughy (also known as deep sea perch) is actually one of the most ...

Illustration of the silver spinyfin (Diretmus argenteus)—the vertebrate with the highest number of opsin genes. Image: (Alexandra Viertler, University of Basel) A newly discovered visual system in ...

Editor’s note: The study described in this news article was retracted on October 29, 2020. Prompted by a study posted at preprints.org questioning the origin of the eggs found in the mouth of a ...

Dead fish, full of a lifetime of mercury, may function as a vessel of this toxin to the deep ocean. While mercury occurs naturally in the environment, human industrial activities have rapidly ...

The eyes of little-understood fish that lurks in the barely-lit deep sea have evolved to see in color, scientists believe. The work, published in the journal Science, calls into question past studies ...

A CHIPPY is giving festive diets a battering by rolling out deep fried yule logs. The limited edition gut buster is available ...