A rare oarfish found at Ocean Beach on Tasmania's west coast. (Photo credit: Sybil Robertson) In two separate incidents this week, rare deep-sea oarfish - nicknamed "doomsday fish" - have washed up on ...

A rare fish species thought to be extinct for over 80 years was rediscovered in India. The journal Zootaxa announced on Friday, Jan. 31, that a Chel snakehead, also known as Channa amphibious, was ...

Today, we show off a truly one-in-a-million peacock bass and the wild colors that make it look almost unreal under the light.

With under 40 pupfish left in the wild, these are possibly the rarest fish on the planet. The Devils Hole pupfish have existed in isolation for thousands of years in an extreme environment where few ...

SAN DIEGO, Calif. (KABC) -- This is really the stuff of nightmares. A rare, monstrous-looking fish recently washed ashore in San Diego. It's called the Pacific footballfish, and it's one of the larger ...

These three fish are freaks, phantoms and mysteries of the deep. Here’s what we’ve learned from the rare glimpses we’ve had of their lives. The deep sea is one of Earth’s final frontiers. Given its ...

This 2024 photo released by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a Fish Lake Valley tui chub. (Nathan Hurner/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP) LAS VEGAS (AP) — Federal protections could soon ...

Meet the “ghost fish,” a phantom of the abyss. Here’s how we found the first ever proof of its existence just a few years ago. The deep sea is a part of the world that very few humans get the chance ...

Researchers prepare to perform a necropsy on an endangered sawfish in March 2024 at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute. Nearly two years after one of the planet’s rarest fish began ...

This sewer looked ordinary from the outside, but inside was a thriving ecosystem of rare fish. In this video, we explore, net ...

A hoodwinker sunfish, or Mola tecta, can weigh as much as 4,400 pounds and can grow up to nine feet long Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...