The goblin shark (Mitsukurina owstoni) is among the most unusual and least understood predators in the ocean. Deep-dwelling, rarely encountered, and visually distinctive, the species has drawn ...

"It's suspected that they use bioluminescence to communicate with each other." This is an Inside Science story. Forget the white whale -- some of the most rarely seen albinos on the planet are ...

In the mysterious world of the ocean’s depths, there’s a creature so bizarre that it looks like it swam straight out of a sci-fi movie. Meet the goblin shark — an ancient, rarely seen predator whose ...

Scientists have captured the first footage of an elusive deep sea shark inhabiting the waters near Southeast Asia’s Timor-Leste. Cephaloscyllium pictum, or the painted swellshark, was first discovered ...

The finds were made during a 2022 deep-sea expedition off Western Australia’s Gascoyne coast in the Gascoyne Marine Park Researchers say the discoveries reveal how little is known about deep-sea life ...

Most of what’s known about the deep-sea painted swellshark, was learned when researchers found specimens in the fish markets of Bali and Lombok, Indonesia back in the early 2000s. However, a recent ...