Learn how through evolution, anglerfish developed a mating solution that helps them adapt to their extreme deep sea home.

In most vertebrates, the absence of adaptive immunity would be catastrophic, but in some deep-sea angler fish species, it enables their “wild ... copulate, or do anything a fish would ordinarily do to ...

While the female spends her life hunting, the male is at leisure to simply hitchhike, acting as a passenger for the majority of his adult life. Watch fish curator James Maclaine get up close and ...

Yet they’re uniquely equipped to find each other. The male’s outsize nostrils pick up the female’s waterborne pheromones. His well-developed eyes search for a spot of light: the ...