(Gray News) – Researchers say they have captured the first images of an adult black seadevil anglerfish in broad daylight.

Marine researchers were out looking sharks off the Canary Islands when they found something quite unexpected -- a humpback angler fish known as a "black sea monster." It was the only known sighting of ...

In what may be the world's first-ever recorded sighting, a black seadevil — anglerfish known for living thousands of feet ...

For the first time, a deep sea angler fish was spotted last week in daylight. The incident was iconic, especially for the shark research organization Condrik Tenerife.

This is only the second time the species has been recorded while alive. “I thought it was A.I.,” says fish biologist Kory Evans.

While on a shark research expedition off the coast of Tenerife, marine biologists said they captured the first images of an adult black seadevil anglerfish alive near the ocean’s surface.

Researchers discovered the deep sea creature in Spain’s Canary Islands, capturing footage of it in broad daylight for the ...

Scientists have captured an extremely rare fish on camera for the first time in broad daylight, Oceanographic Magazine ...

According to the organization, the fish is a so-called “black seadevil” known by its scientific name Melanocetus johnsonii. They typically swim between 650 and 6,500 feet below the ocean’s surface.

In the unlit depths of the ocean, where food is scarce, and chance encounters are rarer still, anglerfish have evolved one of nature’s most bizarre mating approaches. When a male anglerfish finds a ...