Anybody who has seen "Finding Nemo" knows about those captivating monsters of the sea: anglerfishes. Variously horrific or alien-looking, many female anglerfishes sport long, protruding lures used for ...

For deep-sea anglerfishes, sex resembles an organ transplant. It’s hard to find a partner in the dark depths, so a tiny male anglerfish fuses its tissues to a more massive female during mating, ...

Teen movies are, at their core, veiled studies in evolutionary biology, with young men and women coming to sexual maturity and either giving into or resisting what is arguably an animal’s sole purpose ...

Anglerfishes look almost too cartoonishly gruesome to be true, especially the famous rod bait dangling in front of the grim mouth with oversized teeth. But a new study describes how this tool (and ...

New Haven, Conn. – As the planet’s most expansive ecosystem, the deep sea can be a tough place to find a mate. Though, scientists say, some deep-sea anglerfishes evolved a unique method of ...

Researchers have investigated the phenomenon of sexual parasitism in deep-sea anglerfish. The scientists show that this very rare mode of reproduction is associated with the loss of adaptive immunity.

Discover the evolutionary history of this strange fish and its even stranger appendage. Anglerfish are bizarre-looking creatures, not least because of their lure. The rod-like structure that protrudes ...

The authors of a paper in last week's Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Section B, who say their 7.9 mm-long fish from a peat swamp in Southeast Asia is the smallest fish and vertebrate known ...

LAWRENCE — Anybody who has seen “Finding Nemo” knows about those captivating monsters of the sea: anglerfishes. Variously horrific- or alien-looking, many female anglerfishes sport long, protruding ...