While the deep sea is dark and full of things that look like they come from the Andromeda galaxy, a few creatures stand out as especially weird. Anglerfish are chief amongst those crème de la oddballs ...

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 ...

For deep-sea anglerfishes, sex resembles an organ transplant. It’s hard to find a partner in the dark depths, so a tiny male anglerfish fuses its tissues to a more massive female during mating, ...

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 ...

Deep sea anglerfish are well known for their use of a phosphorescent bulb that protrudes from their forehead to attract prey. The creatures will also eat anything they can fit into their mouths. Their ...

In what may be the world's first-ever recorded sighting, a black seadevil — anglerfish known for living thousands of feet beneath the ocean's surface where the light no longer touches — was caught on ...

Chances are the only time you've seen an anglerfish alive was an animated version in "Finding Nemo." Last week, it was the ...

Discover how the deep-sea anglerfish inspired my dating journey in Seattle after moving from Mountlake Terrace.

Anglerfish are one of the more well-known curiosities of the deep. They look incredibly odd compared to the fish we're used to seeing closer to the surface, and their glowing appendages are truly a ...

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 ...

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Why did this deep-sea anglerfish come to the surface? Credit: Mashable composite: TikTok/@drew_j_garcia; Condrik Research and Preserve NGO; Instagram/@beetlemoses In recent days, the anglerfish has ...