A strange, big-eyed "dragonfish" hidden under Antarctic ice for 780,000 years has finally been discovered - and it's already at risk.

This eerie, bulging-eyed fish lived beneath Antarctic ice for centuries - and scientists only just realized it's a new species.

Scientists discovered a new Antarctic "dragonfish" that survived under glaciers for thousands of years - but its future is uncertain.

You might expect something called a deep-sea dragonfish to be a fearsome leviathan of the deep, dark ocean — and it is, if you happen to be one of the thumb-size ocean critters the dragonfish calls ...

In the deep sea, dragonfish lure smaller fish near their gaping jaws with beardlike attachments capped with a light. But the teeth of the pencil-sized predators don’t gleam in that glow. Instead, ...

Deep-sea dragonfish possess an unusual weapon that they wield extremely well when it comes to luring, capturing and killing their unlucky prey: invisible, dagger-like teeth lining their gaping mouths.

Chugging along the ocean’s surface off the coast of Brazil, scientists trawled the watery depths, searching. They hauled in the net and found a horned creature caught in it. Looking closer, they ...

Scientists have shined a light on one of the creepier denizens of the deep sea, a pitch-black creature that can turn itself into a living lamp called the dragonfish. New research helps explain one of ...

At first, it appears like a comet burning a copper flame past distant stars, glimmering on its downward trajectory into the unknown. But instead, we find ourselves in the darkest fathoms of the deep ...

Researchers in California recently came across an incredibly elusive type of deep-sea dragonfish nearly 1,000 feet below the ocean surface. The highfin dragonfish, Bathophilus flemingi, was recently ...

The ocean is, in many ways, another world. It is a place that is quite different from the Earth that we know and experience on a day-to-day basis. Case in point: Meet the black dragonfish. This little ...