A comprehensive account of deep-sea fishes, covering evolution, ecology and the potential threats posed by the growing fishing industry.

The technological advances of the last twenty years have brought huge advances in our understanding of the deep sea and of the species inhabiting this elusive a

No environment on Earth imposes greater physical and biological constraints on life than the deep oceanic midwaters. Near-freezing temperatures, the absence of

The Lateral Line System provides an overview of the key concepts and issues surrounding the development, evolution, neurobiology, and function of the lateral li

"They fished and they fished, way down in the sea, down in the sea a mile. They fished among all the fish in the sea, for the fish with the deep-sea smile" --ba