In February, researchers from conservation organization Condrik Tenerife were about two kilometers off the coast of Tenerife ...

A humpback anglerfish, usually found deep underwater, was filmed near the surface. The amazed scientists and sparked online ...

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 ...

Watch fish curator James Maclaine get up close and personal ... difference in appearance between sexes - is only evident in deep-sea anglerfish species. In other anglerfishes, the male is closer in ...

These fish have never before been seen alive in ... symbiotic bacteria that live inside the bulbous head of the esca. Male anglerfish lack the iconic lure and are much smaller, usually reaching ...

When a male anglerfish finds his mate in the pitch-black expanse of the deep sea, he uses his sharp teeth to latch onto her ...

Once a male locates a female ... reducing the risk of structural damage. The anglerfish's swim bladder, which helps most fish regulate buoyancy, is either greatly reduced or absent, as it would ...