Researchers have uncovered in anglerfish a specialized motor neuron population for the first dorsal fin used for 'fishing'. When the first dorsal fin evolved from a swimming and buoyancy aid to a ...

In A Nutshell Anglerfish have been dangling built-in fishing lures for roughly 72 million years, predating the extinction of ...

Deep-sea videos from around the world show how the whipnose anglerfish prefers to swim belly up. By Elizabeth Anne Brown Usually, a belly-up fish isn’t long for this world. But video evidence from the ...

Chances are the only time you've seen an anglerfish alive was an animated version in "Finding Nemo." Last week, it was the anglerfish that just kept swimming, a phenomenon that's given the tiny ...