Beachgoers were shocked to discover an oarfish — a creature whose appearance, according to folklore, can be a good omen or a harbinger of doom.

Beneath the ocean’s surface lies a world of perpetual darkness, home to some of Earth’s most bizarre and fascinating ...

The grisly discovery was made Sunday, March 2, as a team working with the Schmidt Ocean Institute explored waters 1,600 feet deep off the South Sandwich Islands. The islands are about 1,600 miles east ...

Scientists have discovered that whales move nutrients thousands of miles -- in their urine -- from as far as Alaska to Hawaii. These tons of nitrogen support the health of tropical ecosystems and fish ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on ... paid for by those who can afford it. A rare deep-sea fish regarded as a harbinger of doom has washed up on a ...

By Victor Mather Strange things live in the depths of the ocean ... fish there are partly luminescent to attract prey. They are omnivores, making up for the lack of food at those depths by having ...

big teeth," Frable said. "A lot of that is because the deep sea is a pretty difficult environment to live in.” These rare fish had never been spotted on the surface of the ocean until recently ...

If they die, there’ll be fewer big fish—and that could rattle the ... was the diversity,” Whitney says. “We’ve got deep-sea fish, mid-ocean fish, and reef fish, all interacting at ...

Another deep-sea dweller washed up on a Carlsbad beach ... community online and was ultimately connected with San Diego's fish expert Ben Frable, manager of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography ...

Instead of swimming off, the fish did a “big, 15-foot loop and came back on ... This oarfish was just the latest high-profile incident of a deep-sea creature making a splash on the surface ...