Anoplogaster cornuta and other ultra-black fish were found to absorb 99.5 percent of all light that hits them, ... blending in with the pitch-black background is an effective survival strategy.

Researchers have found 16 species of so-called ultra-black fish, which by definition absorb more than 99.5 percent of light, making them mere shadows as they swim, scientists wrote in a study ...

Rare deep-sea anglerfish spotted on ocean's surface for first time 00:44. In what may be the world's first-ever recorded sighting, a black seadevil — anglerfish known for living thousands of ...

TUCSON — When Bryan Black accepted a post-doctoral research position at Oregon State University to study how fish grow, he hoped to apply his background in forest ecology to marine life.

In this case, though, the black spots characteristic of black spot syndrome allowed for a different approach: the video transect method. To record as many surgeonfish as possible, and therefore ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Biologists with the Pennsylvania Fish Commission say they have been notified after a Lake Erie angler caught a fish with mysterious shiny black growths on it.