Shocking new footage shows a pair of bloodsucking parasites latched onto the head of a deep-sea rattail fish. In the video, which the Schmidt Ocean Institute shared in a Facebook post, two copepods — ...

The bumpy snailfish, discovered 10,000 feet down off the coast of California, shows that not all denizens of the abyss are frightening. By Alexa Robles-Gil For an animal, surviving in the ocean’s ...

Filmed by the Schmidt Ocean Institute, the video reveals a deep-sea rattail fish with two parasites clinging to either side of its head. The parasites are Lophoura szidati, a type of bloodsucking ...

These three fish are freaks, phantoms and mysteries of the deep. Here’s what we’ve learned from the rare glimpses we’ve had of their lives. The deep sea is one of Earth’s final frontiers. Given its ...

A mysterious deep-sea fish known for having a serpent-like body and sharp fang-like teeth washed up on a Seaside beach April 22. The Seaside Aquarium received a call about a barracuda-like fish that ...

SAN DIEGO — CBS 8 is got a closer look at a rare deep-sea anglerfish after it washed ashore in Carlsbad last week. It's now been turned over to marine biologists at the Scripps Institution of ...

New research sheds light on the overlooked contribution of the ocean’s most abundant fish to marine carbon cycling. The findings open new avenues for studying deep-sea carbon dynamics and may improve ...

For an animal, surviving in the ocean’s deepest trenches requires remarkable adaptations: a gelatinous body that can withstand pressure, bioluminescent features to guide it, and a transparent ...

Scientists on an expedition to the South Sandwich Islands near Antarctica have recorded horrifying videos of parasitic copepods feasting on the head of a deep sea rattail fish. When you purchase ...

A new study offers the first direct evidence that deep-dwelling mesopelagic fish, which account for up to 94% of global fish biomass, excrete carbonate minerals at rates comparable to shallow-water ...