Scientists were once again excited, this time over the sighting of a humpback anglerfish for the first ... Bless her." "Deep sea fish sometimes end up in shallow waters when they’re sick ...

A Rice University study sheds light on the extraordinary evolution of anglerfish, a group of deep-sea dwellers whose bizarre adaptations have captivated scientists and the public alike.

A new species of anglerfish, “Gigantactis paresca,” discovered by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa oceanographers, was recently ...

In February, researchers from conservation organisation Condrik Tenerife were about two kilometres off the coast of Tenerife Island, looking for sharks, when they caught sight of something much ...

With its luminous dorsal spine, the anglerfish is well adapted for life in the dark depths of the ocean. But when it comes to relationships, some take a rather unconventional route. Pairings of ...

They also attract predators such as sea stars. This deep-sea anglerfish, which the mission’s researchers are still working to identify, was found in one of five submarine canyons that the ...

An undergraduate University of Hawai‘i researcher was working in a laboratory in 2022 when she came upon a peculiar looking ...

Recently, marine biologists off the Canary Islands’ Tenerife coast recorded a “once in a lifetime” occurrence in early February 2025: a deep-sea anglerfish, was spotted close to the ocean ...

The reaction shows our views of the deep sea – long ignored or seen as a realm of monsters – may at last be changing. Anglerfish are much smaller than you probably think they are. The specimen ...

The reaction shows our views of the deep sea – long ignored or seen as a realm of monsters – may at last be changing. Anglerfish are much smaller than you probably think they are. The specimen ...