Whales spend their lives moving enormous amounts of organic material through the world’s oceans. Their bodies contain vast ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Far below the ocean’s surface, where sunlight can’t reach, some of the most unusual creatures on Earth thrive in complete darkness ...

A new blue octopus species, Microeledone galapagensis, was recently discovered near Darwin Island in northern Galápagos.

At first glance, it looks like something straight out of a horror movie. Pale, translucent, and equipped with eerie glowing ...

The waters off the glittering coastlines of Britain's Caribbean territories have long been a mystery. But now scientists on the first expedition beyond the islands' shallows have discovered an ...

Discover 17 of the funniest-looking animals in the world. These incredible animals prove nature has a remarkable sense of ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here’s a sentence you probably didn’t expect to read today: Thousands of strangers on the internet just collectively named a ...

A newly identified species was found in the Galápagos Islands, one of the world’s most significant biodiverse areas. The tiny ...

A rare deep-sea sevengill shark with unusual patchy coloration was found to be in poor energetic condition, suggesting that ...

A dome-fronted submersible sinks beneath the waves off Indonesia, heading down nearly 1,000 meters in search of new species, plastic-eating microbes and compounds that could one day make medicines.