The eyes of the male dragonfish grow larger for mate seeking, a sexual dimorphism that makes the dragonfish an anomaly in vertebrate evolution, researchers report. A small but ferocious predator, the ...

A small but ferocious predator, the male dragonfish will apparently do anything for love. Or at least to find a mate. A new study by researchers at Boston College found the eyes of the male dragonfish ...

Scientists with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and the French Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle are the first to describe and illustrate an evolutionary novelty among fishes—a ...

Scientists with the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and the French Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle are the first to describe and illustrate an evolutionary novelty among fishes - ...

A new species of Antarctic dragonfish, Akarotaxis gouldae or Banded Dragonfish, has been discovered in waters off the western Antarctic Peninsula. The species, named in honor of the recently ...

A team of marine biologists captured footage of the rare highfin dragonfish Most dragonfishes are very dark black in color, but this one has bronze coloration Dragonfishes are actually "cunning ...

Deep below the surface of the ocean, some 650-3,000 feet below, you might find one of nature’s terrifying predatory fish dubbed the dragonfish. These things look like eels with freaky heads and ...

Thanks to this evolutionary novelty, a flexible joint in the skull of dragonfishes, the creatures are able to swallow prey that is almost as big as they are. Nalani Schnell, Muséum national d’Histoire ...

Chestnut Hill, Mass (07/24/2024) – A small but ferocious predator, the male dragonfish will apparently do anything for love. Or at least to find a mate. A new study by researchers at Boston College ...