Check out the most fascinating and bizarre deep-sea fish the planet has to offer. 15. Hairy Frogfish. Location: Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean .

They looked at coastal species like frogfish, who live in coral reef environments with their counterparts in the deep sea. The coastal frogfish had much lower rates of evolutionary change than ...

Dr. Maarten De Brauwer at Curtin University discovered hairy frogfish have fluorescent lures that glow orange under blue ...

Coastal species like frogfish, ... Reduced evolutionary constraint accompanies ongoing radiation in deep-sea anglerfishes. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2024; DOI: 10.1038/s41559-024-02586-3; ...

Let’s take a closer look at five deep-sea creatures that prove just how weird and wonderful life can be beneath the waves. ... frogfish, and deep-sea anglerfish. 3 / 6. Sloane’s viperfish .

The deep sea provides food to many species in shallower waters, like the swordfish, which dives up to 1,200 meters to feed. Related We’re protecting the ocean wrong ...

Humanity has only explored 0.001% of the deep sea, according to a May 2025 study.Getty Images Reporter The Trump Administration signed an executive order late last month aiming to fast-track ...