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The deep-sea dragonfish is a predator that lives deep in the Pacific Ocean. Like many other deep sea predators, it's got an ...

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TikTok has fallen headfirst into a surprisingly emotional obsession with the tripod fish, a deep-sea species whose strange life cycle reads like pure cosmic suffering. Videos joking and crying about ...

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Antarctic fish have built a sprawling neighborhood of neatly arranged nests in the Weddell Sea — a surprising display of organization in some of the coldest waters on Earth. The discovery suggests ...

Telescope fish have large heads and a greenish-blue color with a silvery underside. ©By Emőke Dénes – kindly granted by the author, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons ...

To say spotted ratfish are unusual is an understatement. Related to sharks, they abound in the inky dark depths of the Puget Sound. Armed with a venomous fin, they swim gracefully along the sea floor ...