While some species of anglerfish can grow up to a few feet in length, most are much smaller. The males of many species are just a few inches long.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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A video still shows a female anglerfish with whiskery fin-rays glowing in the deep-sea dark. The rays may be bioluminescent, or they may be reflecting light from a submersible’s lamps. The male of the ...