This bizarre-looking fish may seem otherworldly, but every part of its design solves a real problem: how to see, hunt and ...

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

Learn how fossils and high-resolution imaging revealed that some Triassic fish may have used a lung-like organ to detect ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...