Male Pacific footballfish are known to act "more like parasites" and lose their eyes and internal organs after fusing themselves to females to get their nutrients.

The regions where “milky seas” mostly occur tend to experience upwelling in the ocean, which is when the cooler, nutrient-rich water from the deep ... sea” bacteria glow instead to attract ...

The reaction shows our views of the deep sea – long ignored or seen as ... This modified dorsal fin ray can produce a glow used to fish (or angle) for prey in the dim depths of the sea.

Glowworms and certain deep-sea fish species are some of the creatures ... What's the secret to its glow? In the 19th century, French pharmacologist Raphaël Dubois, working with bioluminescent ...

Professor Sophie Scott is joined by James Maclaine, a Curator of fish from the Natural History Museum, who shows her a number of deep sea fish and explains how they use light to communicate in ...