Could you tell one fish from another if they were the same species? Likely not, but new research suggests they might be able to tell us apart.

The deep sea, covering approximately 65% of Earth's surface, has long been considered a biological desert. In this extreme ...

Beneath the ocean’s surface lies a world of perpetual darkness, home to some of Earth’s most bizarre and fascinating ...

The flat-bodied fish laid itself out on the beach, outside the water, before people approached the creature. Another man in the video who identified the deep-sea species attempted to return the ...

And yet life somehow survives, adapted to that strange world. Many of the fish there are partly luminescent to attract prey. They are omnivores, making up for the lack of food at those depths by ...

Anglerfish, according to National Geographic, are (notoriously ugly) deep-sea creatures that live in ... users claimed to be “crying” over the fish’s relentless pursuit to the surface ...

Neither of them could have guessed it was an oarfish — a deep-sea creature rarely spotted on the surface whose infrequent appearances have inspired centuries of folklore that the fish are both ...

And where will it happen?” Another noted, “What is going on in the bottom of the ocean that has all these deep sea fish suddenly surfacing?” Last year, the rarely seen oarfish was seen at ...

Another deep-sea dweller washed up on a Carlsbad beach ... community online and was ultimately connected with San Diego's fish expert Ben Frable, manager of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography ...

“Many researchers have suggested this as to why deep-water fish strand on beaches. Sometimes it may be linked to broader shifts such as the El Niño and La Niña cycle but this is not always the cas ...