But there are even more things to expect in the depths, including the weirdest deep-sea creatures ever discovered. They all hover in the abyss of the ocean—grotesquely and beautifully looking ...

Their residence attracts shrimp, fish and many other creatures. These deep-sea oases are just some of many areas of the ocean floor that scientists are only beginning to explore, discovering new ...

Four kilometres below the Southern Ocean surface is a strange world inhabited by even stranger creatures. In its autumn ...

The jellyfishlike creatures, called Velella velella, emerged Sunday along Bolinas Beach in Marin County, a visitor told the ...

These are 7 of the most unique and weird-looking sea creatures known to mankind.Image credits: Canva This deep sea slug amounting to the size of only 1cm is one of the rarest herbivores in the ...

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...

You probably don’t think you have much in common with the creatures ... the deep sea. Most of the animals that endure the intense pressure and lack of sunlight are, well, downright strange.

Scientists have discovered a “thriving ecosystem” of strange deep-sea ­creatures on a newly exposed sea floor after an iceberg broke off near the Antarctic. The area, which had never before ...

In the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich rocks coveted by miners—and huge numbers of strange and rare animals ... and a giant sea cucumber dubbed ...

Until now, very little is known about creatures living beneath ... hosting hints of several new species unknown to science. Deep-sea ecosystems typically rely on nutrients trickling from the ...