One of the Earth's blackest materials is a living creature found more than 600 feet beneath the ocean's surface, new research reveals. Deep in the ocean, sunlight is nearly nonexistent. Instead, ...

The fish was found at 200 to 2,000 meters below the surface. At least 16 types of recently discovered deep-sea fish are among the darkest creatures ever found, according to a study published Thursday.

A deep-sea predator equipped with tubular, light-amplifying eyes and a highly specialized jaw system is capturing scientists' attention for its extraordinary ability to thrive in pitch-black waters.

The skin of fish that live deep beneath the surface of the sea represent some of the blackest materials known on Earth, absorbing more than 99.5 percent of light that hits its body. The discovery ...

Fanciful common names of fishes suggest there may be an orchestra in the sea, but this is yet another way the underwater world lets us down. In the heat of the cold war when cloak-and-dagger espionage ...

Many of the fish lurking in the depths of the ocean resemble the alien villains of horror films, with gargantuan teeth, glow-in-the-dark bodies and bulging eyeballs. But why do these fish have such ...

A team of French researchers has found that the little-understood coelacanth can live for a century. Not only that, but the fish’s whole lifespan appears to be stretched, as it spends years in the ...

Branzino is a popular fish for restaurants to serve whole, but the seafood delicacy is sometimes known as European sea bass.

A scary-looking creature with “devil” in its name was spotted close to the surface off Tenerife, a Spanish island. By Victor Mather Strange things live in the depths of the ocean. Even the light of ...

An "odd-looking" deep-sea fish recently washed ashore on an Oregon beach to the surprise of a local aquarium. The Seaside Aquarium in Seaside, Oregon, published pictures of the dead fish in an April ...

The deep sea is home to fish species that can detect various wavelengths of light in near-total darkness. Unlike other vertebrates, they have several genes for the light-sensitive photopigment ...