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.

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 ...

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet—where creatures glow and life survives ... Whales and commercially valuable fish such as tuna rely on animals in this zone ...

Deep-sea fish adapt to some of the most extreme conditions on Earth. New research analyzing their evolution finds the same mutation across fish species that have evolved on separate timelines — ...

The fish was collected while scientists created a baseline of life in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, before deep-sea mining might impact the area. “I hope this discovery emphasizes how much more ...