Chugging along the ocean’s surface off the coast of Brazil, scientists trawled the watery depths, searching. They hauled in the net and found a horned creature caught in it. Looking closer, they ...

Deep below the surface of the ocean, some 650-3,000 feet below, you might find one of nature’s terrifying predatory fish dubbed the dragonfish. These things look like eels with freaky heads and ...

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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 ...

Thanks to this evolutionary novelty, a flexible joint in the skull of dragonfishes, the creatures are able to swallow prey that is almost as big as they are. Nalani Schnell, Muséum national d’Histoire ...

Dr. Tracey Sutton, a fish ecologist at the HARBOR BRANCH Oceanographic Institution in Ft. Pierce, Fla., has discovered a new species in a bizarre and elusive family of deep-sea predatory fish known ...

Marine biologists aboard an expedition in Monterey Bay in California recently spotted a brilliant and rare deep sea fish named for a mythical creature: the highfin dragonfish (Bathophilus flemingi).

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chugging along the ocean’s surface off the coast of Brazil, scientists trawled the watery depths, searching. They hauled in the ...

Scientists trawling the Atlantic Ocean pulled in a net and discovered a new species, the study said. Photo shows a representative coastline of Brazil. Photo from Joselito via Unsplash Chugging along ...