In the first year of her doctoral research, Abigail Grassick collected hours of underwater video as she studied fish communities living on bommies—individual clumps of coral—on the seafloor off the ...

For the first known time, a team of scientists in China filmed a strange, shrimp-like fish walking backward along the seafloor. The fish, Scalicus engyceros, is a species of armored searobin, a group ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: NOAA Ocean Exploration, 2025 Beyond the Blue A deep-sea fish that already seems as though it belongs in science ...

Ultrasonic tracking in Hiroshima Bay shows that male and female black sea bream move differently during the spawning season, offering a novel discovery into the reproductive behavior of a ...

Deep-sea videos from around the world show how the whipnose anglerfish prefers to swim belly up. By Elizabeth Anne Brown Usually, a belly-up fish isn’t long for this world. But video evidence from the ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Anglerfish are some of the most bizarre and fearsome ...

From the left side of the screen, a thin, long arm reaches out. On the right, there is a red fish with large eyes. It looks as if the fish is targeting prey, or perhaps as if the owner of the arm is ...

Some bottlenose dolphins have learned to use tools to help them catch fish, a clever technique that may be passed on from mother to calf. Scientists in Australia observed dolphins chasing fish into ...