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 ...

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 ...

The comparatively massive female anglerfish (Melanocetus johnsonii) with her tiny mate permanently fused to her belly. Edith A. Widder / Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigetics Love can ...

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The Fanfin Seadevil deep-sea anglerfish has been caught mating on camera for the first time. This beauty is an “apparently gravid” – pregnant, or egg-laden – female with a sexually parasitic dwarf ...

Gen Zers are crying an ocean over the saga of a small anglerfish that perished shortly after swimming to the surface, as seen in TikTok videos with millions of views. Was it Finding Emo? Just when you ...

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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 ...

Now and again, marine scientists plumbing the dark depths of the sea pull out a new fish species that is just out-and-out ugly. The latest discovery looks like a hunchbacked, rotting old shoe with ...

There are still so many mysteries in the ocean! Apparently batfish exist. And goosefish. I learned about both today when the The Ocean Exploration Trust shared a video while exploring the seafloor.

To paraphrase the great philosophes of our time: nature is lit. And nowhere is it more straight fire than when it comes to weird creatures mating. Like these anglerfish, for example, which are ...

Deep-sea anglerfish sex is an endless horror. Every. Single. Time. Praying mantis sex gets a bad rap because sometimes the female bites off the male's head and eats him. Like, once in a while. Usually ...