A newly described species of deep-sea fish has emerged from the shadows of a Soviet scientific expedition—36 years after it was first collected in the remote Cosmonauts Sea, off the coast of East ...

The ocean is full of unusual animals, but few catch people off guard quite like the mola mola. It’s a massive, slow-moving disk of a fish with fins that seem placed almost at random, and it drifts ...

Something unusual is happening in the oceans. Strange deep-sea creatures are surfacing, and marine life is behaving unpredictably. From the rare sighting of the so-called “doomsday fish” to ...

These three fish are freaks, phantoms and mysteries of the deep. Here’s what we’ve learned from the rare glimpses we’ve had of their lives. The deep sea is one of Earth’s final frontiers. Given its ...