During a recent expedition aboard the research vessel David Packard, MBARI scientists encountered a rarely seen barreleye ...

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These three fish are freaks, phantoms and mysteries of the deep. Here’s what we’ve learned from the rare glimpses we’ve had of their lives. The deep sea is one of Earth’s final frontiers. Given its ...

During a recent expedition off the coast of Central California, scientists from Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute ...

One of the strangest fish in the ocean, the barreleye fish (Macropinna microstoma), was just spotted for the first time in ...

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The deep sea is cold, dark and under immense pressure. Yet life has found a way to prevail there, in the form of some of Earth’s strangest creatures. Since deep-sea critters have adapted to near ...