Blobfish’s remarkable comeback story, from ‘world’s ugliest animal’ to New Zealand’s fish of the year - Ugly Animal Preservation Society mascot beats fellow deep-sea critter orange ...

5 deep-sea creatures that look straight out of an Alien movie The deep sea is full of surprises, hiding creatures that look like they belong in a sci-fi movie rather than our oceans.

Unlike most deep-sea predators, the Vampire Squid feeds primarily on “marine snow”—a continuous shower of organic detritus falling from upper waters—using two retractile filaments to capture these ...

To survive the deep ocean, sea creatures need all kinds of adaptations that give them alien-like appearances, like huge eyes and needle-like teeth.

The blobfish’s body is primarily a mass of gelatinous flesh with a density slightly less than water, allowing it to float above the seafloor without expending energy on swimming. This adaptation is ...

Bizarre creatures like vampire squid and blobfish make their home in the dark, cold, depths of the deep sea, but most of this watery realm remains a complete mystery. That's because humans have ...

Scientists have shared footage from a rare sighting of a bluntnose sixgill shark spotted near the Phoenix Islands in the Southern Pacific Ocean.

The blobfish, once dubbed the "world's ugliest animal," has been named "Fish of the Year" by a New Zealand environmental group, the Mountain to Sea Conservation Trust, in an effort to raise ...

The blobfish went viral with this photo, but underwater they look like a completely different fish. They sustain tissue damage when they're brought from the ocean's depths to the surface.

It stands in stark contrast to the fate of the deep-sea blobfish Psychrolutes marcidus, which in 2013 was voted the world’s ugliest animal.

The reception of “Icarus” (as some call her) in popular culture indicates a perhaps surprising capacity for empathy toward animals that aren’t conventionally cute or beautiful. It stands in stark ...