A black seadevil anglerfish has captured − and broken − hearts across the globe after the small deep-sea creature swam to the surface in Spain's Canary Islands just before dying. A TikTok user ...

"This could be the first recorded sighting in the world of an adult black devil or abyssal anglerfish (Melanocetus johnsonii) ...

Deep in the ocean’s pitch-black depths lurks a creature straight out of a horror movie—the black seadevil anglerfish. With its ghostly glow, razor-sharp teeth, and an eerie bioluminescent lure ...

A humpback anglerfish (Melanocetus johnsonii)—a species known as a black seadevil—was spotted off the coast of Tenerife. This terrifying deep-sea fish is typically found at depths of 200 to ...

A black seadevil anglerfish was sighted near the surface, about 2,000 meters off the coast of Tenerife in the Canary Islands, which are part of Spain, by scientists with Condrik Tenerife ...

On January 26, 2025, scientists worldwide were shocked to learn that a black seadevil anglerfish (Melanocetus johnsonii) had ventured from the ocean's dark depths to the surface near the San Juan ...

Jara and his team were able to swim alongside and capture this rare sighting of the black seadevil, a species that usually inhabits the inky depths of the ocean ...

The video has provoked an enormously empathetic response on social media, with some seeing the fish as a feminist icon or an ...

In what may be the world's first-ever recorded sighting, a black seadevil — anglerfish known for living thousands of feet beneath the ocean's surface where the light no longer touches — was ...

By Callie Holtermann and Madison Malone Kircher It is easy to believe that the black seadevil anglerfish, with its gaping maw of razor-like teeth, a bioluminescent rod sticking out of its head and ...