another deep sea dweller, by nearly 300 votes. In their natural habitat, on the seabed at depths of about 2,000ft to 4,000ft (600m-1,200m), blobfish resemble any other fish. But when brought to ...

“Regrettably, when it is pulled up … that sudden decompression causes it to become all disfigured,” he explained, noting that underwater, its shape is more typical of a bulbous deep-sea fish. Out of ...

What a glorious moment it is!” open image in gallery Blobfish, a gelatinous deep-sea fish, grows up to 30cm and lives at depths of 600-1,200m off Australia and Tasmania Ten fish species competed ...

A Peruvian fisherman who was rescued after 95 days lost at sea told CNN that his faith and his desire to see his family again kept him going – along with a diet of cockroaches, birds ...

The gelatinous fish lives on the sea bed and grows to about 12in (30cm) in length. They're mainly found off the coast of Australia, where they live at depths of 2,000-4,000 ft (600-1,200m).

Female anglerfish possess a glowing lure, called an esca, which attracts prey in the darkness of the deep sea. This bioluminescent light is produced by symbiotic bacteria living within the fish.

A recent study led by Professor He Shunping and his team at the Institute of Hydrobiology (IHB), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), sheds light on the evolutionary history of deep-sea fish and their ...

Maralyn and Maurice Bailey's boat sank when it was hit by a whale in the Pacific Ocean on 4 March 1973, and after their food ran out, they made hooks from safety pins and caught fish, small sharks ...