Flashlight fish favor dark environments like caves and overhangs. In those conditions, they end up looking like a pair of spooky glowing eyes with no body, as in the video above.

The humpback anglerfish or black devil fish is believed to live on the seabed between 200 and 2000 metres deep. ... a dark brown coloured fish is seen swimming upwards, with its mouth open.

The researchers described the fish as a "true predator of the depths," a characterization which rings true. Black seadevils can live up to 15,000 feet under the ocean surface, with humpback ...

In bass fishing, black buzzbaits, Jitterbugs, and frogs shine on bright days when the fish are looking up for a meal. Whether there is or is not abundant natural black forage in the waters where these ...

Black mystery fish caught in Florida’s Choctawhatchee River was a longnose gar that developed an abnormal lack of colors due to melanism, experts say.

Black mystery fish caught in Florida’s Choctawhatchee River was a longnose gar that developed an abnormal lack of colors due to melanism, experts say.

The pitch-black recesses of a cave in southern China have yielded an astonishing find - a unicorn-like fish species previously unknown to science. As IFLScience reports, researchers stumbled upon ...

Fish living in dim conditions can have as many as 28 layers of light-sensitive rod cells at the back of their eyes, known as a multibank retina. But exactly how this helps them to see in low light ...

GRAND FORKS — Paul Radomski is the author of the soon-to-be-published “Walleye: A Beautiful Fish of the Dark.” A fisheries biologist and lake ecology scientist by trade, Radomski, of ...

In regular daylight, they look like a basic black and grey fish with a normal round eye. But even in semi-dark conditions like the video above, the large bean-shaped light begins to glow.