A new species of anglerfish, “Gigantactis paresca,” discovered by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa oceanographers, was recently ...

"The foundation of all life is in the ocean," famously ... found are a new species of Donavon Frankenreiter's favorite animal, the guitar shark, as well as reef fish, crab and limpets.

This is the third supergiant isopod species discovered in the South China Sea since 2017, researchers said. Photo by Huang M-C, Kawai T (2025) At a fishing port in Taiwan, researchers bought four ...

Scientists found a “large”-eyed sea creature ... The fish were found in “shallow coral and rocky reef environments” at depths of about 2 to 90 feet. Thousands of new species are found ...

and yielded 11 deep-sea fish species from six major groups. By analyzing genetic data from these deep-sea fish, the researchers reconstructed their evolutionary history, revealing how vertebrates ...

Among those that were new was a “blob-headed fish” in the Chaetostoma genus, which includes bristlemouth armored catfish. The ...

Evolving roughly 27 different times in the long history of fish, bioluminescence -- the biological production of light -- is one of the flashier survival tools used for luring prey, communication, and ...