Imagine a world where sunlight barely penetrates, where darkness reigns and strange, glowing creatures drift silently through ...

Imagine an underwater world where tiny creatures hold the fate of the planet’s carbon cycles in their delicate fins. Beneath ...

On closer inspection, it is clear that they are actually a special group of fish, lanternfish, who get their name from their incredible ability to produce light. Lanternfish have tiny organs known ...

Denton investigated the evolutionary roots of a clade known as lanternfish (family Myctophidae), which are plentiful at zones more than 200 meters below the surface. He first needed an evolutionary ...

To film the boiling seas, the team first had to find a large shoal of bait fish – most likely to be lanternfish – rising to the surface to spawn. A few days out, the scientist spotted a giant ...

Lanternfish are one of many animals that light up the ocean with their glowing bodies. Watch fish expert Ollie Crimmen explain more about these deep-sea dwellers. Lanternfishes have light-producing ...