The male's head "melts" into the skin of the female and it gives its life entirely, becoming little more than a nub along the ...

Learn how through evolution, anglerfish developed a mating solution that helps them adapt to their extreme deep sea home.

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Krøyer’s deep-sea anglerfish, Ceratias holboelli, does not spawn, copulate, or do anything a fish would ordinarily do to mate. Instead, the ...

drawing in other fish. This is also how the anglerfish attracts mates. Males are significantly smaller than females. They are permanently parasitic mates and will latch onto the body of a female with ...

Watch fish curator James Maclaine get up close and personal with one of these ... Parasitic behaviour and extreme sexual dimorphism - the noticeable difference in appearance between sexes - is only ...

A mile or more down in the lightless ocean, deep-sea anglerfish search for partners ... Yet they’re uniquely equipped to find each other. The male’s outsize nostrils pick up the female ...

Other anglerfish engage in obligate parasitism, where the male’s head dissolves into the female and the two fish’s circulatory systems fuse, the male becoming a permanent sperm-producing organ.