A rare video of an anglerfish swimming to the surface of the ocean is going viral right now, but people are learning that the ...

The video captured the world's attention. Weeks after a lone, now-famous anglerfish ascended from the depths and into the ...

Photographer David Jara Boguñá filmed a humpback anglerfish (Melanocetus johnsonii, a species of black seadevil) swimming near the surface in sunlit waters. These fish have never before been ...

With its luminous dorsal spine, the anglerfish is well adapted for life in the dark depths of the ocean. But when it comes to relationships, some take a rather unconventional route. Pairings of ...

A mile or more down in the lightless ocean, deep-sea anglerfish search for partners. The 162 species of this Ceratioid suborder form odd couples: The males are dwarfed, the females many times ...

In most vertebrates, the absence of adaptive immunity would be catastrophic, but in some deep-sea angler fish species, it enables their “wild” and “wacky” mating habits. After a year teaching an ...

A new species of anglerfish found in a deep-sea mining zone has been listed among the top 10 new finds by the World Register of Marine Species. The researcher who found the new species hopes the ...

The enormous expanded stomach of a rare hairy anglerfish has intrigued researchers ever since it was caught near the Cape Verde islands in 1999. Little is known about this bizarre deep-sea fish, ...