attracting an oh-so-lucky male anglerfish right along with their next deep sea dinner. Anglerfish were unknown to science ...

Other anglerfish engage in obligate parasitism, where the male’s head dissolves into the female and the two fish’s ...

Watch fish curator James Maclaine get up close and ... difference in appearance between sexes - is only evident in deep-sea anglerfish species. In other anglerfishes, the male is closer in size to the ...

A mile or more down in the lightless ocean, deep-sea anglerfish search for partners ... Yet they’re uniquely equipped to find each other. The male’s outsize nostrils pick up the female ...

Hey, at least it's a quick death, especially compared to some deep-sea anglerfish, like the triplewart seadevil. This one's a female. And you see that tiny parasite on her side? That's the male.

In this image, the anglerfish Melanocetus johnsoni not only ... Here, surely, is good circumstantial evidence for deep-sea angling." ...

Instead, they slide up the front of the fish's face when it shuts its mouth. Its flexible neck allows it to bend its head back and stick out the lower jaw to reach out and grab fish, squid and ...

Sep. 3, 2024 — The bigmouth buffalo is a fish that's native to Minnesota ... Eyes for Love: Searching for Light and a Mate in the Deep, Dark Sea, Male Dragonfishes Grow Larger Eyes Than the ...

Not all sea creatures can be as cute as baby turtles, but all sea creatures' homes are vital and worth protecting. These five ...

I made my way to a steep precipice, balanced on the brink, and looked clown, down into the green depths where illumination like moonlight showed waving sea-fans and milling fish far beyond the ...

In 2011, a group of divers looking for treasure and salvage in the Baltic Sea took a sonar image of a ... researchers discovered that it was the male pufferfish – at just five inches long ...