Deep-sea "alien" fish specimen on display in a laboratory setting, surrounded by jars. Image credits: Dr. Todd Clardy/Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County According to Dr. Ralf Britz, Head of ...

Dive into the abyss and discover 25 creepy deep sea creatures you've never heard of! From frilled sharks to vampire squid, ...

Meet the “ghost fish,” a phantom of the abyss. Here’s how we found the first ever proof of its existence just a few years ago. The deep sea is a part of the world that very few humans get the chance ...

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 ...

Have you ever looked at a creature and thought, “This can’t possibly be from Earth”? That feeling becomes surprisingly common ...

In the deep ocean, where sunlight never reaches, and food drifts down like confetti, survival is less about speed and more about strategy. Take, for example, the tripod fish, a creature that can swim ...

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 ...