The amount of sperm released decreased sharply with each mating during a single day, reducing the males' fertilization rate.

A “weird” species of “walking” fish is helping shed light on how humans evolved to stand upright millions of years ago, according to scientists. The sea robin, a bony fish that lives at ...

The strange fish had a unique face with a protruding head ... a younger colleague knowledgeable about fish species said it might be a deep-sea North Pacific crestfish, aka unicornfish.

All of this makes them very vulnerable and attractive to predators such as fish, crabs ... The post The Strange Defense Mechanism of the Sea Cucumber appeared first on A-Z Animals.

“We found that a cascade of traits, including those required for sexual parasitism, allowed anglerfishes to invade the deep sea during a period of extreme global warming when the planet’s oceans were ...

The ultra-black Pacific black dragon is a very difficult animal to photograph An ocean mystery - how the blackest fish in the deep sea are so extremely ... they had really strange skin - they ...

Strange Days on Planet Earth is a multi ... Half a world away in Puerto Rico, space-age aquapods filled with fish are floating far out at sea, while off the coast of New Brunswick, Canada ...

Pairings of deep-sea male and female anglerfishes are rather unbalanced. While the female spends her life hunting, the male is at leisure to simply hitchhike, acting as a passenger for the majority of ...

The Mariana Trench is the deepest place on Earth, and we're still in the dark about much of the life that calls it home. Here ...

China is the world's top fish consumer and is spending billions on technology designed to restock the oceans. But will this expensive experiment actually work?