Animals that defy every visual expectation of what a living organism should look like are turning up on ROV cameras in the ...

Scientists working from deep-sea submersibles and museum collections have formally named a striking batch of new species this ...

On the flip side, a new paper in Cell shows how supergiant deep-sea animals can survive for as long as five years without ...

When photographer Jialing Cai plunged into the ocean in the dead of night, she found creatures of the deep had risen up to ...

Known as Dalhousiella yabukii, the worm resides inside a glass sea sponge—a simple marine animal that forms a glass-like skeleton—in the cold, dark waters off the coast of Japan. And it’s just one of ...

The researchers saw many strange animals — many believed to be new to science — living off the whale carcasses.

Animals come in an extraordinary range of body shapes. A starfish looks nothing like an earthworm, a mouse, or a human. Yet even closely related species can appear radically different: corals, ...

The ocean is home to some sea creatures that will likely give you a fright. Much of the ocean's marine life is yet to be discovered, with scientists estimating that a whopping 91% of ocean species ...

Thankfully, you don't have to cross the seven seas to find the ocean animal that mirrors your soul, according to your birth ...