Those bizarre sea creatures that light up like carnival rides are actually ctenophores, which have an ancient brainlike structure.

With growing interest in mining critical metals from the seafloor, countries are now negotiating international rules. The ...

Some beautiful animals look as if they were designed by humans. Birds are gorgeous creatures, coming in many different colors, shapes, and sizes. One example is the razorbill, which is famous for its ...

Fifty-eight sea turtles in critical care have been bestowed with themed nicknames as part of their recovery process before they are released back out into the wild.

Sharks might not be a natural biological group, with most species potentially closer kin to rays than to an oddball group of sharks.

Many insects live in fresh water, or close to the sea in salt marsh and beach habitats. There are also several species of water striders in the genus Halobates, which live on the ocean’s surface, far ...

Reviewing those rare encounters, marine scientist Mark C. Benfield at Louisiana State University (LSU) connected scattered sightings and documented the fish alive in its natural depth range. Footage ...

In a world first, scientists that discovered a new type of chiton turned to social media crowdsourcing to come up with the ...

Lost fossils reveal that some of the first ocean predators went global astonishingly fast after Earth’s worst extinction.

Scientists from the Schmidt Ocean Institute have uncovered an array of remarkable finds off the coast of Argentina, including the world’s largest known Bathelia candida coral reef, 28 new animal ...

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Venture beneath the surface of the sea, past where sunlight fades into complete darkness, and you’ll discover creatures so extraordinary they seem to defy the laws of biology itself. These deep-sea ...