In recent days, the anglerfish has become a symbol of hope and light for the extremely online — which is very nice but not exactly based on truth. It's all a very sweet message. But, as many ...

Anglerfish mating is a familiar story: Boy meets girl, boy becomes attached to girl, their bodies and bloodstreams fuse as one, and the pair reproduces happily until the male fish dies. This ...

(Gray News) – Researchers say they have captured the first images of an adult black seadevil anglerfish in broad daylight. Biologists from NGO Condrik Tenerife were on a shark research expedition when ...

There’s no such thing as a one-night stand with anglerfish. Marine biologists have just discovered that these toothy, deep-sea creatures possess an unprecedented immune adaptation that allows their ...

The Fanfin Seadevil deep-sea anglerfish has been caught mating on camera for the first time. This beauty is an “apparently gravid” – pregnant, or egg-laden – female with a sexually parasitic dwarf ...

The mysterious bacteria that gives the anglerfish its distinctive glowing headlamp is now a little less mysterious. Aside from a terrifying jaw, the anglerfish’s distinctive ‘lamp’ to guide it through ...

On January 26, 2025, scientists worldwide were shocked to learn that a black seadevil anglerfish (Melanocetus johnsonii) had ventured from the ocean's dark depths to the surface near the San Juan ...

Anglerfish are interesting creatures we don’t know much about. Popularized by movies like Finding Nemo, the real-life anglerfish lives over 1000 meters below the surface of the sea. In that total ...

Although anglerfish mating rituals have never been captured on video, scientists have finally managed the feat around the Azores Island in Portugal. Details about the mating ritual of anglerfish have ...

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