The ocean’s deepest reaches harbor some of the most alien and terrifying life forms on Earth. Far below where sunlight fades to eternal darkness, creatures have evolved in ways that seem to defy ...

It is safe to say we usually think of life as an all-or-nothing package. An animal is either a complete and functioning organism, and if one part is cut off, it dies. And that is if the animal ...

Deep beneath the ocean’s surface lies a world so strange that some of its inhabitants look more like creatures from a science fiction movie than animals living here on Earth. With no sunlight, ...

A deep-sea exploration team has discovered 57 new species, including one they compare to a Spongebob Squarepants character, ‘Patrick Star’. STAY UP TO DATE WITH THE LATEST NEWS BY SUBSCRIBING TO ...

Even though the depths of the deep sea are thousands of kilometres away from the atmosphere, the movements and functions of this underwater realm drastically influence the climate. Oceans cover more ...

A mischievous sea cucumber and 56 other newly discovered marine species are making a splash in the South Atlantic Ocean. The new creatures were discovered during an expedition of ...

Two remarkably preserved fossils found in China suggest an ancient amphibian may have spent its entire life in the ocean, ...

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Two nearly complete fossilized skeletons of the strange new species were found in southwestern China. Scientists suspect its ...

The ocean has always been good at producing animals that seem designed by someone ignoring the usual rules. What is stranger is how recently some of the most unusual examples entered the scientific ...

There’s already been a lot of excitement over tropical orcas hunting off Southern California and a whale shark seen off San ...