Black Desert's lakes will serve as a protected environment, allowing the fish to mature away from natural predators before being reintroduced into their native habitat in the Virgin River.

The fish -- called the ultra-black fish, which live anywhere between 200 to 2,000 meters below surface -- are so dark that they often appear just as a silhouette, according to one of the authors ...

Researchers believe they've recorded potentially the first-ever sighting of an adult abyssal fish, Melanocetus johnsonii, in broad daylight. Normally found at depths between 200 and 2,000 meters ...

In many species, Johnson says, these lesions are black, “but in some species they’ll show up as white.” They form on the skin, scales and fins of fish. The spots appear when the free-swimming, larval ...

A first-of-its-kind study in Appalachia revealed disturbing findings about microplastic pollution in the region's water and fish. Isabella Tuzzio, a biology undergraduate student at West Virginia ...