Telescope fish are deep-sea dwelling creatures, found in tropical and subtropical regions of the ocean at depths between 500 ...

A newly described species of deep-sea fish has emerged from the shadows of a Soviet scientific expedition—36 years after it ...

Beachgoers in the San Francisco Bay Area encountered a rare hoodwinker sunfish washed ashore on a beach on Sept. 7.

The gulper eel ( Saccopharynx lavenbergi), also called a pelican eel, is roughly a meter of tail and mouth. This unusual fish ...

Ghost sharks (also called chimaeras) are already weird. They have special electrical-sensing pores for navigating the deep sea, and one species literally looks like Zero from The Nightmare Before ...

To say spotted ratfish are unusual is an understatement. Related to sharks, they abound in the inky dark depths of the Puget Sound. Armed with a venomous fin, they swim gracefully along the sea floor ...

A bumpy, pink fish with blue eyes and beard-like appendages has been filmed ... Snailfishes are considered unusual even by deep-sea standards. Some have a suction cup of sorts on their stomach that ...

The deep sea is a world unlike any other. It’s a place where strange creatures evolve extraordinary features to survive in near-total darkness. One such creature is the barreleye fish, a species so ...

NASA is not only studying our universe. While many think the company was strictly created to search the cosmos, it often ...

Those difficulties were motivation for Vásquez and fellow marine researcher Justin Cordova to start the nonprofit Rogue Shark Lab. Vásquez said the group has the twin goals of raising money to support ...

Our convict forebears could as easily have been hanged for horse stealing as transported for poaching a salmon from a rich ...