A scary-looking creature with “devil” in its name was spotted close to the surface off Tenerife, a Spanish island.

Researchers say the new footage of the deep sea fish may be the first live sighting of the creature in daylight near the ocean's surface Brenton Blanchet is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE.

Black Devil Fish usually stayed between 200 and 2,000 metres down in the inky deep sea. Researchers think this is the firs time ever an adult of the species, scientific name Melanocetus johnsonii ...

Deep-sea fish are animals that live in the darkness below the sunlit surface waters, that is below the epipelagic or photic zone of the sea. The lanternfish is, by far, the most common deep-sea fish.

A shark research organization came face to face last week with a deep sea creature who isn't known ... said the team spent a couple of hours with the fish before it died, Oceanographic Magazine ...

A very rare fish sighting is making a splash on social media. A deep-sea anglerfish, with its mouthful of sharp teeth, was spotted near the surface of the water near the Canary Islands off the coast ...

Miles below, a deep-sea fish approached the camera’s bait then, changing its mind, swam backward to escape. The footage turned out to be a first-of-its-kind sighting — but it wasn’t the last.

Narrator: This is David Stein, a deep-sea-fish biologist who was lucky enough to dissect 19 blobfishes in the 1970s. Blobfish look blobby because they are full of water. Under their skin ...

Weedy sea dragons have very long, thin snouts; slender trunks covered in bony rings; and thin tails which, unlike their seahorse cousins, cannot be used for gripping. They have small, transparent ...

The mysterious deep-sea fish was described in a paper published ... fish are a massive head with short snout, large oval eyes, thin body with a long trunk and dark brown, deciduous skin.