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 ...

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Reaching over 30 feet long, the mysterious giant oarfish is the real-life "sea serpent" behind centuries of myths and legends ...

By Edward Carver The documentary A Life Illuminated will make its Washington, D.C., premiere on March 19, the first night of ...

A deep-sea predator equipped with tubular, light-amplifying eyes and a highly specialized jaw system is capturing scientists' attention for its extraordinary ability to thrive in pitch-black waters.

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 ...

Mesopelagic fish, long overlooked in ocean chemistry, are now proven to excrete carbonate minerals much like their shallow-water counterparts—despite living in dark, high-pressure depths. Using the ...

The deep sea is cold, dark and under immense pressure. Yet life has found a way to prevail there, in the form of some of Earth's strangest creatures. Since deep-sea critters have adapted to near ...