Glittery sea worms and sea squirts fit for "The Lord of the Rings" universe might sound like pure fantasy, but they're very real creatures living in the deep sea. Some of these otherworldly ocean ...

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, ...

Researchers at MBARI, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, have been exploring this hidden world for years. Using ...

Glittery sea worms and sea squirts fit for The Lord of the Rings universe might sound like pure fantasy, but they’re very real creatures living in the deep sea. Some of these otherworldly ocean ...

Deep-sea coral reef discovered off the coast of Naples with an intact ecosystem that has scientists amazed today ...

Scientists find a deep-sea coral ecosystem over 100 years old, raising urgent concerns about bottom trawling in the South Pacific.

Two massive “doomsday fish” washed ashore on a Mexican beach – leaving tourists stunned in a rare sight that some believe ...

Jace Tunnell, of the Harte Research Institute in Corpus Christi, holds a handful of blue dragons. Dozens of the sea slugs washed ashore on North Padre Island and Surfside Beach on March 10, 2026. The ...

Q. Someone told me that the body and arms of calamari, like you eat in a restaurant, can be more than 40 feet long. I’m not sure I believe my buddy or what I read on the internet, so what are the ...

The shark was spotted in near-freezing waters, which most species can't withstand A sleeper shark has been spotted in the frigid waters surrounding Antarctica for the first time The sleeper shark was ...

New research shows why some shelly critters flourished in the ocean’s harshest habitats — and others didn’t Jack Tamisiea Beds of Bathymodiolus mussels provide important habitat for other deep-sea ...

Here’s a sentence you probably didn’t expect to read today: Thousands of strangers on the internet just collectively named a deep-sea creature that lives on sunken wood at the bottom of the ocean, and ...