Other videos showed two species of cusk eel, Bassozetus sp. and Barathrites iris, swimming tail-first away from the camera with the help of top fins. “After the backward escape maneuver ...

Dazzling octopuses, creepy deep-sea anglerfish, cusk eels, and crustaceans are just some of the deep-sea creatures that have been documented by a recent expedition off the Chilean coast.

Nautilus explorers stumbled upon a group of bone-eating worms, cusk eels, and octopi feasting on the skeleton of a baleen whale on the ocean floor near the coast of central California. Spooky and ...

This grumpy-looking cusk eel is pictured at a depth of 1,585 feet. Scientists were unsure as to why this eel was so grumpy, but maybe you would be too if a strange, bright, submersible gawked at ...