You might expect something called a deep-sea dragonfish to be a fearsome leviathan of the deep, dark ocean — and it is, if you happen to be one of the thumb-size ocean critters the dragonfish calls ...

Researchers in California recently came across an incredibly elusive type of deep-sea dragonfish nearly 1,000 feet below the ocean surface. The highfin dragonfish, Bathophilus flemingi, was recently ...

This eerie, bulging-eyed fish lived beneath Antarctic ice for centuries - and scientists only just realized it's a new species.

In the deep sea, dragonfish lure smaller fish near their gaping jaws with beardlike attachments capped with a light. But the teeth of the pencil-sized predators don’t gleam in that glow. Instead, ...

At first, it appears like a comet burning a copper flame past distant stars, glimmering on its downward trajectory into the unknown. But instead, we find ourselves in the darkest fathoms of the deep ...

View of a glacier at Chiriguano Bay in South Shetland Islands, Antarctica on November 07, 2019. JOHAN ORDONEZ JOHAN ORDONEZ/AFP via Getty Images A new species of dragonfish with bulging eyes and pale ...

The ocean is, in many ways, another world. It is a place that is quite different from the Earth that we know and experience on a day-to-day basis. Case in point: Meet the black dragonfish. This little ...

Scientists have shined a light on one of the creepier denizens of the deep sea, a pitch-black creature that can turn itself into a living lamp called the dragonfish. New research helps explain one of ...

Deep-sea dragonfish possess an unusual weapon that they wield extremely well when it comes to luring, capturing and killing their unlucky prey: invisible, dagger-like teeth lining their gaping mouths.