At first, it appears like a comet burning a copper flame past distant stars, glimmering on its downward trajectory into the unknown. But instead, we find ourselves in the darkest fathoms of the deep ...

Chugging along the ocean’s surface off the coast of Brazil, scientists trawled the watery depths, searching. They hauled in the net and found a horned creature caught in it. Looking closer, they ...

Scientists have shined a light on one of the creepier denizens of the deep sea, a pitch-black creature that can turn itself into a living lamp called the dragonfish. New research helps explain one of ...

An incredibly rare species of deep-sea dragonfish with a shimmering metallic bronze hue has been spotted in the 'twilight zone'. Marine scientists filmed the highfin dragonfish (Bathophilus flemingi) ...

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In the deep sea, dragonfish lure smaller fish near their gaping jaws with beardlike attachments capped with a light. But the teeth of the pencil-sized predators don’t gleam in that glow. Instead, ...

A deep-sea fish can hide its enormous, jutting teeth from prey because its chompers are virtually invisible — until it’s too late. What’s the dragonfish’s secret? The teeth are transparent, and now ...

Researchers say the tiny crystalline structures in the predator’s fangs could inspire strong, see-through materials. By Wudan Yan Unassuming dragonfish lurk in the twilight zone, more than 1,600 feet ...

Deep-sea dragonfish possess an unusual weapon that they wield extremely well when it comes to luring, capturing and killing their unlucky prey: invisible, dagger-like teeth lining their gaping mouths.

Dragonfish are the stuff of nightmares with their oversized jaws and rows of fanglike teeth. The deep sea creatures may be only several centimeters long, but they can trap and swallow sizable prey.