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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Researchers in the Antarctic Peninsula have discovered a new species of Antarctic dragonfish, a new journal study shows. The dragonfish, called the Banded Dragonfish or Akarotaxis gouldae, was ...

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 ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. You might expect something called a deep-sea dragonfish to be a fearsome leviathan of the deep, ...

Researchers say the tiny crystalline structures in the predator’s fangs could inspire strong, see-through materials. By Wudan Yan Unassuming dragonfish lurk in the twilight zone, more than 1,600 feet ...

Astronomers have spotted the most jam-packed cluster of young supermassive stars ever seen in the Milky Way galaxy, including hundreds of the most massive types of stars that are dozens of times ...

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