In 2013, the blobfish was voted World’s Ugliest Animalby theUgly Animal Preservation Society in an effort to get some attention for creatures who aren’t exactly panda-cute. Th ...

A more accurate name for these creatures might be “blob-above-water-fish,” as Madeline Black wrote in 2020 for Ocean Conservancy, a nonprofit environmental advocacy group. The runner-up for ...

The open ocean’s twilight zone, a vast deep ecosystem rich in fish biomass, is poorly understood because it is expensive and challenging for humans to reach its depths 200–1000 meters (660 ...