To paraphrase the great philosophes of our time: nature is lit. And nowhere is it more straight fire than when it comes to weird creatures mating. Like these anglerfish, for example, which are ...

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For the first time ever, someone has captured anglerfish mating on video. This isn't a cloudy, blurry, underwater video that's hard to discern, fortunately. In it, we see the female anglerfish in all ...

Deep-sea anglerfishes’ unique sex strategy may have helped their ancestors move into a brand new habitat, enabling the surprising diversity of species that thrive today. Chase Brownstein at Yale ...

The male angler fish when mating merge with the female angler fish, it is much smaller in size than the female. It appears like a parasite, it gets dissolved until the gonads are the only ones left.