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 have ...

Anglerfish mating is a familiar story: Boy meets girl, boy becomes attached to girl, their bodies and bloodstreams fuse as one, and the pair reproduces happily until the male fish dies. This ...

In recent days, the anglerfish has become a symbol of hope and light for the extremely online — which is very nice but not exactly based on truth. It's all a very sweet message. But, as many ...

Anglerfish live in the deep ocean where sunlight can’t reach. To survive, they rely on bioluminescence — the ability to produce light. Special bacteria live inside a lure on the fish’s head. These ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Priya covers the ocean, climate change, and the future of our planet. Deep-sea anglerfish are unique and unusual for many reasons.

Now and again, marine scientists plumbing the dark depths of the sea pull out a new fish species that is just out-and-out ugly. The latest discovery looks like a hunchbacked, rotting old shoe with ...

The Fanfin Seadevil deep-sea anglerfish has been caught mating on camera for the first time. This beauty is an “apparently gravid” – pregnant, or egg-laden – female with a sexually parasitic dwarf ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gen Zers are crying an ocean over the saga of a small anglerfish that perished shortly after swimming to the surface, as seen in ...

There are still so many mysteries in the ocean! Apparently batfish exist. And goosefish. I learned about both today when the The Ocean Exploration Trust shared a video while exploring the seafloor.

To paraphrase the great philosophes of our time: nature is lit. And nowhere is it more straight fire than when it comes to weird creatures mating. Like these anglerfish, for example, which are ...