What has needle-like teeth so large they don’t fit inside its mouth, a huge gaping jaw that completely engulfs its prey, and lives in the ocean zone where sunlight can’t reach? That would be the ...

Far below the ocean’s surface, where sunlight disappears and pressure reaches crushing levels, some of the planet’s strangest ...

There are a number of amazing creatures in the depths of Earth’s oceans. Here are some of our favorites…. This shrimp vomits bioluminescent material onto a viperfish to distract it and escape. This ...

Female anglerfish are noteworthy for the small extensions that grow from their heads — called an esca — which illuminate and are used as bait to lure prey in the deep dark water. The aptly named ...

LOT OF THINGS lurking in the deep sea are intimidating and otherworldly, but nothing quite says Xenomorphic nightmare fuel quite like the glass-fanged viperfish (Chauliodus sloani). And how’s this for ...

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The viperfish uses multiple rod opsins within their eyes and can see color even in the depths of the ocean. (Dr. Wen-Sung Chung / University of Queensland, Australia) Sign up for new weekly newsletter ...

Here the viperfish is seen "chasing" a hatchetfish.

Gatekeeper Systems has received a purchase order from Stirling Computers to provide 25 Viperfish SDI-1 high-definition airborne digital video recorders to the US Air Force, it announced on 3 February.