For decades, the coelacanthexisted only in fossil records—until one turned up in a South African fishing net. It was 1938 when a museum curator in East London noticed an unfamiliar fish in a haul from ...

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...

It encompassed nearly the entire depth range of deep-sea fish habitats (1,218–7,730 meters) and yielded 11 deep-sea fish species from six major groups. By analyzing genetic data from these deep ...

Inside deep ... sea creature known as Sebastapistes monospina, or the tropical single-spined scorpionfish, was identified as a new species. Found in shallow coral and rocky reef environments, thes ...

A new species of anglerfish, “Gigantactis paresca,” discovered by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa oceanographers, was recently ...

Newly Explored Deep Sea Octopus Nursery Is Just the Third Ever Discovered Rochelle Constantine, a professor in the School of Biological Sciences, detailed her team’s strange encounter in an ...

A new species of prehistoric fish was found in iron-rich stone in southeastern ... Here are three of our most recent eye-catching stories. → 6-foot-long sea creature — with 'sharp' snout ...