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UH-discovered deep-sea anglerfish named to top 10 remarkable species list
A new species of anglerfish, “Gigantactis paresca,” discovered by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa oceanographers, was recently ...
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See it: Nightmarish deep-sea fish spotted swimming in shallower waters
NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN FISH FOUND MORE THAN 3 MILES UNDER THE SEA Only female deep-sea anglerfish have the characteristic lure on the front of their face, according to the Smithsonian Museum of Natural ...
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Hawai‘i researcher hopes her top 10 discovery protects a deep sea region
An undergraduate University of Hawai‘i researcher was working in a laboratory in 2022 when she came upon a peculiar looking ...
‘Icarus of the deep’: how a dying anglerfish became a social media sensation
In February, researchers from conservation organisation Condrik Tenerife were about two kilometres off the coast of Tenerife ...
How a dying anglerfish became the darling of social media
Photographer David Jara Boguñá filmed a humpback anglerfish (Melanocetus johnsonii, a species of black seadevil) swimming near the surface in sunlit waters. These fish have never before been seen ...
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Fish in the Mariana Trench all have the same, unique mutations
Tracing the evolution of deep-sea fishes, the researchers' analysis revealed that the eight lineages of fish species studied entered the deep-sea environment at different times: The earliest ...
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'Icarus of the deep': How a dying anglerfish became a social media sensation
The reaction shows our views of the deep sea—long ignored ... for their bioluminescent lure (or esca). This modified dorsal fin ray can produce a glow used to fish (or angle) for prey in the ...