A newly discovered visual system in deep-sea fish could allow them to discern predators from prey in the low-light conditions found at the bottom of the ocean, new research suggests. A team led by ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - While people and other vertebrates are color blind in dim light, some deep-sea fish may possess keen color vision to thrive in the near total darkness of their extreme ...

The deep sea is cold, dark and under immense pressure. Yet life has found a way to prevail there, in the form of some of Earth’s strangest creatures. Since deep-sea critters have adapted to near ...

Some deep-sea fish may be able to see light in a different way from most other vertebrates, according to a new study. The ...

Nature is harsh. But over time, animals can evolve to adapt to that harshness with stunning methods. Scientists have discovered a previously unknown visual system that may allow color vision in deep, ...

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The silver spinyfin, or little dori, inhabits a layer of the deep sea, where the Twilight Zone’s blue fades to black, often half a mile below the surface. Down there, they may see the world like no ...

The eyes of little-understood fish that lurks in the barely-lit deep sea have evolved to see in color, scientists believe. The work, published in the journal Science, calls into question past studies ...

Deep-sea fish, a group of inhabitants of the most light-deprived and harsh environments on our planet, have been discovered to possess a vision similar to humans. This groundbreaking finding not only ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...