Scientists say they’ve found more than 1,100 new marine species over the last year, emphasizing how unexplored the ocean ...

Strange Deep-Sea Creatures Were Once Mistaken for Monsters and It's Easy to See Why ...

The deep sea is home to weird and wonderful creatures that, over millions of years, have evolved specific traits to survive the extreme conditions of their habitat. These adaptations to their ...

Centuries before modern science could more accurately explain the natural world, brief animal sightings often inspired ...

Long-distance gene control first emerged around 650 to 700 million years ago, significantly earlier than scientists had ...

The video above takes viewers beneath the waters off Bali, Indonesia, where a truly unusual marine animal glides across the seafloor. At first glance, it looks almost unreal — soft, translucent, and ...

Blue jellyfish-like sea creatures are once again washing up along the Northern California coast, drawing crowds and curiosity at local beaches. Thousands of the creatures, known as velella velella and ...

Debate continues to rage over whether a strange carcass found in 1937 was a new species or a basking shark. Either way, the case reveals how little is known about what lies beneath the waves ...

Texas is simply crawling with curious critters, and according to a respected research institute, "thousands and thousands" of creepy creatures are showing up on the Gulf Coast because of a "mass die ...