Deep beneath the ocean’s surface lives a creature so strange that it looks more like an alien than a fish. With oversized ...

“That generally means that so little is known about the species that it is not possible to evaluate its conservation status.” Smooth lumpsuckers have a high water content in their tissues and round, ...

The ocean is full of some incredibly odd creatures. It feels like the further you go down, the stranger and more alien-like they become. With so many interesting creatures, it makes you wonder, what ...

The next breakthrough in medical implants could come from a terrifying, needle-fanged fish lurking ...

Scientists have uncovered why big predators like sharks spend so much time in the ocean’s twilight zone. The answer lies with mid-sized fish such as the bigscale pomfret, which live deep during the ...

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 ...