These three fish are freaks, phantoms and mysteries of the deep. Here’s what we’ve learned from the rare glimpses we’ve had of their lives. The deep sea is one of Earth’s final frontiers. Given its ...

A new study offers the first direct evidence that deep-dwelling mesopelagic fish, which account for up to 94% of global fish biomass, excrete carbonate minerals at rates comparable to shallow-water ...

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Mesopelagic fish, long overlooked in ocean chemistry, are now proven to excrete carbonate minerals much like their shallow-water counterparts—despite living in dark, high-pressure depths. Using the ...

Researchers at Northwestern University have identified a single mechanical ratio that dozens of unrelated sea creatures, from jellyfish to squid to bony fish, appear to share when they swim. The ...

How did ancient fish perceive their environment in the deep sea? An international team led by scientists from the Natural ...

Fabio Cortesi receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Lily Fogg previously received a Research Training Program scholarship from the Australian Government. The deep sea is cold, dark ...

Fish species living in the deep sea feature a surprisingly large range of body shapes that evolved in different ways and at different rates depending on where the fishes live in the ocean, new ...

Behold, the latest in deep-sea fashion: An unfortunate fish sporting parasitic copepods as pigtails. An international team of scientists affiliated with the Schmidt Ocean Institute and the Woods Hole ...