The marine photographer who captured the footage said it could be the world's first recorded sighting of a black seadevil ...
This is only the second time the species has been recorded while alive. “I thought it was A.I.,” says fish biologist Kory Evans.
Researchers discovered the deep sea creature in Spain’s Canary Islands, capturing footage of it in broad daylight for the ...
A team of researchers in the Canary Islands has captured rare footage of a black seadevil anglerfish, a deep-sea species, swimming near the ocean’s surface—a sight that has been recorded only ...
According to the organization, the fish is a so-called “black seadevil” known by its scientific name Melanocetus johnsonii. They typically swim between 650 and 6,500 feet below the ocean’s ...
In what may be the world's first-ever recorded sighting, a black seadevil — anglerfish known for living thousands of feet beneath the ocean's surface where the light no longer touches — was ...
The anglerfish is also known as the black seadevil or black sea monster. The specific humpback anglerfish was a female Melanocetus johnsonii as noted by the unique bioluminescent lure that extends ...