In 2013, the blobfish was voted World’s Ugliest Animalby theUgly Animal Preservation Society in an effort to get some attention for creatures who aren’t exactly panda-cute. Th ...

This is the only fish that produces red bioluminescence Many deep-sea creatures give out blue light called bioluminescence - but the stoplight loosejaw emits red light as well. This light is invisible ...

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 shark and stingray ...

Perhaps impressed by its rounded aspect, the scientist describing this ball of a fish even gave it a generic ... is good circumstantial evidence for deep-sea angling." ...

Narrator: This is David Stein, a deep-sea-fish biologist who was lucky enough to dissect 19 blobfishes in the 1970s. Blobfish look blobby because they are full of water. Under their skin ...

They live between the surface and 1000m deep within the so-called “twilight zone”, and in the Southern Ocean, they are a major consumer of krill – small, shrimp-like creatures – and are an ...