Scientists have made a rare discovery off the coast of Portugal, where a frilled shark, a species that has remained nearly unchanged for 80 million years, was accidentally caught in a commercial ...

Shocking new footage shows a pair of bloodsucking parasites latched onto the head of a deep-sea rattail fish. In the video, which the Schmidt Ocean Institute shared in a Facebook post, two copepods — ...

Filmed by the Schmidt Ocean Institute, the video reveals a deep-sea rattail fish with two parasites clinging to either side of its head. The parasites are Lophoura szidati, a type of bloodsucking ...

Looking out over the smooth, clear waters of Playa El Quemado this month, a wiggling object caught Robert Hayes’s attention as it headed toward the shoreline. Hayes had been walking the beach in the ...

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SAN DIEGO — CBS 8 is got a closer look at a rare deep-sea anglerfish after it washed ashore in Carlsbad last week. It's now been turned over to marine biologists at the Scripps Institution of ...

Mesopelagic fish, long overlooked in ocean chemistry, are now proven to excrete carbonate minerals much like their shallow-water counterparts—despite living in dark, high-pressure depths. Using the ...

A new fishing port slated for completion in June will bring huge commercial vessels into the artisanal fishing community of Shimoni, Kenya. Local fishers fear that once the new port comes online, ...

The copepods are a species called Lophoura szidati, and are latched onto the head of a rattail fish from the genus Macrourus, representatives wrote in the Facebook post. Related: Watch bright red ...