In the deep sea, dragonfish lure smaller fish near their gaping jaws with beardlike attachments capped with a light. But the teeth of the pencil-sized predators don’t gleam in that glow. Instead, ...

A team of researchers led by the University of California San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering and Scripps Institution of Oceanography have discovered what’s responsible for making the teeth of ...

The dragonfish is a top predator at the bottom of the sea. A bioluminescent lure on its head and spots on its belly beckon prey, like a lantern draws in moths. The rest of its body, as long as a ...

Deep-sea dragonfish possess an unusual weapon that they wield extremely well when it comes to luring, capturing and killing their unlucky prey: invisible, dagger-like teeth lining their gaping mouths.

Scientists have shined a light on one of the creepier denizens of the deep sea, a pitch-black creature that can turn itself into a living lamp called the dragonfish. New research helps explain one of ...

In the darkness of the ocean’s midnight zone the deep-sea dragonfish, glows with bioluminescence to lure prey before striking with its transparent, sabre-like teeth. The transparency makes the teeth ...