What has needle-like teeth so large they don’t fit inside its mouth, a huge gaping jaw that completely engulfs its prey, and lives in the ocean zone where sunlight can’t reach? That would be the ...

It seems that the deeper one goes into the sea, the stranger underwater creatures become. For the most part, anyway. Scientists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), for example, ...

In what may be the world's first-ever recorded sighting, a black seadevil — anglerfish known for living thousands of feet beneath the ocean's surface where the light no longer touches — was caught on ...

A team of scientists has caught a giant deep sea creature on film that resides at a depth of the ocean where sunlight can't even reach. The only natural light source at depths of 3,300 to 13,100 feet ...

We explain how the tubular eyes of the telescopefish actually work and how these eyes help them survive at great depths.

"These discoveries remind us that we still know so little about the ocean, the largest living space on Earth," said the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute A recently discovered deep-sea ...

It’s not every day scientists encounter shape-shifting whalefish off the coast of California. In fact they’ve only spotted them 18 times in the last 34 years of deep-sea exploration, according to the ...

Thousands of meters below the ocean's surface lurk some gigantic creatures, much larger than their shallow-water brethren. Scientists have a few hunches for why this happens, but the debate continues.

While the deep sea is dark and full of things that look like they come from the Andromeda galaxy, a few creatures stand out as especially weird. Anglerfish are chief amongst those crème de la oddballs ...

It’s not every day scientists encounter shape-shifting whalefish off the coast of California. In fact they’ve only spotted them 18 times in the last 34 years of deep-sea exploration, according to the ...