Somewhere on the pitch-black floor of the Pacific, more than four kilometers beneath the surface, a tiny crustacean has been ...

After a long, winding road of tests, researchers at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and other ...

A two-and-a-half-year-old mystery concerning a strange golden object found miles below the sea surface isn't an egg or sponge ...

The strange, shiny discovery, retrieved from the ocean near Alaska in 2023, turned out to be part of an anemone, scientists ...

Discover bizarre deep-sea creatures found off Australia, from a “Game of Thrones” shrimp to zombie worms, uncovered by the RV ...

A single pass of a nodule-collecting machine across the Pacific seafloor wiped out more than a third of the animals living in ...

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 ...

Imagine a shark so dark and soft-bodied it seems to dissolve into the blackness of the deep ocean. Or a fish with a rat-like tail, a plump nose and a big spine rising above its dorsal fin — a creature ...

A sea lion pup found itself in an unfamiliar spot, strolling around San Francisco several blocks from the ocean. The San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department said that in the early hours of ...

It looked like something plucked from a fairy tale — a fleshy, violet disc sitting in the sand along the Southern California ...

"I find this so interesting. I have not heard or seen this beautiful creature before." ...