There are over 200 species of deep-sea anglerfish; some are long and thin, some are squat and round, some have fins that they use to "walk" along the sea floor, and others have huge eyes set far ...

According to state park officials, there are more than 200 species of anglerfish worldwide. The Pacific footballfish, which some may know as one of the creatures in the movie “Finding Nemo ...

But they weren't expecting to run into a creature as elusive as this species of anglerfish. A remotely operated submersible that the researchers were piloting from land had descended to a depth of ...

There are over 200 species of deep-sea anglerfish; some are long and thin, some are squat and round, some have fins that they use to "walk" along the sea floor, and others have huge eyes set far ...

A Pacific footballfish, a deep-sea creature and a species of anglerfish, washed up on a California beach for the second time since 2021, sparking curiosity and awe among experts.

Usually, a belly-up fish isn’t long for this world. But video evidence from the deep ocean suggests that some species of anglerfish — the nightmarish deep-sea fish with bioluminescent lures ...

There are reportedly over 200 species of deep-sea anglerfish, which are named for their fleshy, bioluminescent head protuberance that they use to lure unsuspecting prey. And their looks aren’t ...

Anglerfish are among the ocean’s most bizarre creatures. This group of deep-sea dwellers are best known for the bioluminescent lures dangling from their foreheads to attract predators, but they ...

Female angler fish evolved and got rid of the genes that cause that response. In species that attach only temporarily , male and female bodies don't completely fuse together.

Chase Brownstein at Yale University and his colleagues reconstructed the evolution of the 160-plus species of deep-sea anglerfish, or ceratioids.