Sunlit Sighting: First Live Daylight Anglerfish Observed Off Tenerife

A live adult humpback anglerfish (Melanocetus johnsonii) was spotted at the sunlit surface off Tenerife in January 2025, a creature that normally inhabits the deep, dark midwater. The animal was filmed for about an hour and a half before dying, and researchers recovered the specimen for study, but its ascent and the trigger remain unresolved; the footage has gone viral with hundreds of millions of views.