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Spanish researchers recently shared images of a deep-sea anglerfish swimming horizontally in shallow waters, capturing a rare moment with a fish not often seen by humans.

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In a rare and astonishing event in February 2025, a deep-sea anglerfish—known as the black seadevil—was filmed near the ocean ...

Players tap the screen to see the animal and identify if it’s familiar or tag it as unknown. The game then reveals whether their choices match the consensus of other players or if the creature ...

A huge oarfish washed up near La Paz in Baja California Sur in 2020. Credit: Fernando Cavalin. On a sunlit beach in Lanzarote ...

Pat Hutchings, a marine biologist focused on studying marine worms, visited Bora-Bora in 2015 while on vacation and decided ...

Many sea creatures depend on sound, and have evolved complex systems of communication that they use for connection, reproduction, territorial assertion and survival. But over the last few decades ...

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Despite making up more than 70% of the Earth's surface, seas and oceans are largely unknown to science ... have found has nothing to do with abyssal creatures or marine legends, but with a ...