Illustration of the silver spinyfin (Diretmus argenteus)—the vertebrate with the highest number of opsin genes. Image: (Alexandra Viertler, University of Basel) A newly discovered visual system in ...

Nature is harsh. But over time, animals can evolve to adapt to that harshness with stunning methods. Scientists have discovered a previously unknown visual system that may allow color vision in deep, ...

Scientists have long presumed that the creatures in the deep ocean experienced a dark, colorless world. But some of the fish who live there may be able to see colors thanks to a newly discovered ...

Meet the three new species of deep-sea snailfish and how researchers used modern tech to help identify them.

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

The eyes of little-understood fish that lurks in the barely-lit deep sea have evolved to see in color, scientists believe. The work, published in the journal Science, calls into question past studies ...

When Lorian E. Schweikert, Ph.D., reeled in a hogfish on a fishing trip to the Florida Keys, she noticed something strange after setting it down on the deck of the boat. Hogfish are known for their ...

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When you think of deep-sea fish, chances are you imagine sharp-toothed, foreboding-looking monsters. However, researchers ...

During a recent expedition, researchers from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute discovered three new snailfish ...

On a coral reef off the eastern coast of Australia, scuba divers set up a tent-like trap in hopes of collecting some easily overlooked marine life. The approach worked and caught a red-eyed sea ...