Many otherworldly deep-sea creatures, though, are so beautiful and mysterious that you won't believe they exist. Even in the ...

In this edition of “Ask a Marine Biologist,” Dr. David Shiffman discusses a challenging environment for marine life.

Organisms in the deep sea rely on gravity flows to lay down sediment and then make burrows beneath the seafloor, according to ...

New scans of the bottom of the Japan Trench reveal extensive burrow structures and evidence of regular "reset" events that ...

TikTok users are mourning, celebrating, and mythologizing an anglerfish who was spotted rising to the surface of the sea ...

In Japanese folklore, appearances of these elusive marine creatures dubbed ‘doomsday fish’ are believed to foreshadow ...

The ocean’s depths hold some of Earth’s most fascinating and misunderstood creatures. Among them is the anglerfish, a tiny ...

National Geographic explained how the scientists who spotted this anglerfish — also referred to as the “black seadevil” for ...

Beachgoers were shocked to discover an oarfish — a creature whose appearance, according to folklore, can be a good omen or a ...

Social media users are reacting to the rare sighting of a black seadevil anglerfish that was spotted on the surface of the water near Tenerife island in Spain.

A rare deep-sea fish regarded as a harbinger of doom has washed up on a beach in the Canary Islands. The oarfish was ...