The Rattail Fish: A Host With No Escape The unfortunate ... learning about the evolutionary arms race between predator and prey. It’s important to understand these ocean dynamics because climate ...

When prey approaches the viperfish’s lure, it can strike with remarkable speed, impaling victims on its long teeth. The Grenadier Fish. NOAA/MBARI, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Grenadiers, ...

This one-of-a-kind predatory strategy has never been seen in other insects. Scientists think it was used to trap flies into ...

Shocking new footage shows a pair of bloodsucking parasites latched onto the head of a deep-sea rattail fish. In the video, which the Schmidt Ocean Institute shared in a Facebook post, two ...

The best jaw for hunting fast fish is long and full of sharp teeth. This makes sense to us, but it also makes sense in nature ...

These parasites, equipped with egg sacs, give the fish an unusual appearance with what looks like tufts. A rattail fish filmed near the South Sandwich Islands with parasites attached to its head.

Some reef fish have the unexpected ability to move their jaws from side to side, biologists at the University of California, Davis have discovered. This ability – which is rare among vertebrate ...

or rattail fish, which cruise at overlapping depths with black cod. They could also process the aesthetically intimidating fish, which often landed with its innards ballooning out of its mouth ...

Scientists on an expedition to the South Sandwich Islands near Antarctica have revealed footage that is straight out of a horror movie: a deep-sea rattail fish swimming with two bloodsucking ...

A strange video from the South Atlantic Ocean showed parasites on a deep-sea fish. These parasites, Lophoura szidati copepods, looked like they had pigtails. They clung to the head of a rattail ...