The Oarfish, unfortunately dubbed the “doomsday fish”, has shown up four times near the surface. The first sighting was in ...

Some types of “walking” fish called sea robins can use their taste bud-covered legs to detect prey buried beneath the sandy covering of the seafloor.

With a catfish-shaped body and face, sea robins come in a wide range of colors: Red-brown and orange to subtler hues of silver and gray. Yet sea robins are most notable for their distinctively ...

Most undergrads don't get the chance to work with museum-preserved specimens of deep sea anglerfish. Then again, Rose Faucher isn't most undergrads. "The fish world is actually pretty small, and ...

A team of science-minded kayakers and snorkelers in La Jolla Cove had the encounter of a lifetime when a dead oarfish washed to the ocean surface on Aug. 10, 2024. This deep-sea fish is incredibly ...