A small team of ichthyologists at the California Academy of Sciences has discovered a new species of damselfish living off ...

Fish, of course, are not humans, but they allow a fair comparison, Salinas said. And her work suggests that if fish have ...

A rare deep sea fish, regarded as a harbinger of doom, has washed up on a southern California shore. The Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, said one of ...

The long, ribbon-shaped fish usually inhabit the mesopelagic zone ... which could also affect oarfish and other deep-sea creatures. “Rare encounters like this provide an amazing opportunity ...

Ben Frable, manager of the Scripps Oceanography Marine Vertebrate Collection -- one of the largest collections of deep-sea fish in the world -- contacted the NOAA Fisheries West Coast team to ...

A new fish species has been hiding in plain sight at markets across Asia. Now, scientists have finally identified it.

The remains of the longest bony fish in the world, the rare deep-sea oarfish, have washed up on California shores only 22 times in the past 123 years. Now, three have washed up in just the past ...

This migration has rippling effects through food webs ... Plenty More Fish in the Sea? Environmental Protections Account for Around 10 Percent of Fish Stocks on Coral Reefs Oct. 7, 2024 — New ...

More than two dozen people were rescued and a more than a dozen remained missing Monday after Egyptian authorities said a tourist boat sank off the Red Sea coast during early morning hours.

The doomsday fish got its name because it looks like a mythical sea creature, with a long, ribbon-shaped body that can grow up to 30 feet, according to Ocean Conservancy. After doctoral candidate ...

The collection is one of the largest of deep-sea fish in the world, according to Scripps. Oarfish are often described as “sea serpents,” Scripps notes, and the species’ long “ribbon-like ...

A California woman was walking her dog on Grandview Beach in Encinitas when she came across a very rare, deep-sea fish. Alison Laferriere, who happens to be a PhD candidate at Scripps Institution ...