The video captured the world's attention. Weeks after a lone, now-famous anglerfish ascended from the depths and into the ...

"It could be the first recorded sighting in the world of an adult black devil or abyssal anglerfish (Melanocetus ... Such a depth is known as the Bathypelagic Zone, or the "midnight zone," where ...

It lives in all the world's oceans at depths exceeding 6,500 feet. In this image, the anglerfish Melanocetus johnsoni not only looks like a basketball, it looks like it could swallow one.

The anglerfish was initially collected during a UH Mānoa Department of Oceanography-led research cruise in 2021 to the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, a vast area of abyssal ocean southeast of Hawaiʻi.