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A transparent goby fish drifted through the darkness, its skeleton visible through paper-thin skin. Nearby, a sea slug wore ...

Museum fossils in England reveal 200-million-year-old coelacanths, fish that swam alongside the first dinosaurs ...

At first glance, this deep-sea animal looks like a familiar garden bug taken to an extreme. Living thousands of feet below ...