A Russian fisherman’s deep-sea catch of a bizarre smooth lumpfish has ignited online debate, with many likening it to an alien.

Fisherman Roman Fedortsov left people in shock after reeling in something unsightly from the Pacific Ocean - with many ...

The species of marine ray-finned fish is found in the deep sea and measures up to 44cm. While their appearance is certainly unique, it appears to have undergone some swelling – likely due to the ...

Fedortsov identified the blob as a smooth lumpsucker, a species of marine ray-finned fish that grows to over a foot long and resides in the depths. The Lovecraftian critter caused quite a stir ...

The peculiar creature quickly sparked intrigue among Instagram users, with some even speculating that it could be evidence of ...

Posting a video of it on Instagram, the fisherman identified it as a smooth lumpsucker, a type of marine ray-finned fish, which lives in the deep and may reach lengths of more than a foot.

Bichir are bottom-dwelling freshwater fish native to western Africa. They are among the most primitive of the ray-finned fish, the dominant group of modern fish, which arose about 395 million ...

A deep-sea fisherman has revealed his eerie catch – a creature so bizarre it has been compared to an alien. The fish, with its large, bulbous body, tiny eyes and gaping mouth, looks like ...

So the researchers went with a family-level analysis, rather than a species-level one, relying on a recent phylogeny of extant ray-finned fish families, which number in the hundreds. Combing the ...

One person described the fish as her “feminist Roman Empire”, in the sense of an inspirational obsession that filled the same ...

For the largest group of vertebrates, ray-finned fishes, the ability to evolve ... Evidence shows that the evolutionary success of these fish was fuelled not necessarily by the key innovation ...