This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Anglerfish and comedy always seemed like a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While the deep sea is dark and full of things that look like they come from the Andromeda galaxy, a few creatures stand out as ...

Last week, a viral video likely floated to the top of your feed: a rare black seadevil anglerfish, which looks like a floating head with a frightening amount of teeth and two cloudy eyes, swimming in ...

Chances are the only time you've seen an anglerfish alive was an animated version in "Finding Nemo." Last week, it was the anglerfish that just kept swimming, a phenomenon that's given the tiny ...

Anglerfish first colonized the ocean's midnight zone 55 million years ago, during a period of extreme global warming, a new study finds. The bizarre fish adapted to thrive in the deep sea by becoming ...

The latest animal to go viral isn’t a baby hippo or newborn tapir or anything that cute really: it’s a humpback anglerfish (Melanocetus johnsonii) that was spotted in shallow waters off the coast of ...