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 ...

From bone-eating snot-flowers to snowboarding scale worms, when a whale dies it becomes a colossal island of nutrients – attracting weird and wonderful creatures to feast.

Researchers at MBARI, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, have been exploring this hidden world for years. Using ...

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Barreleye fish are named for their unique, barrel-shaped eyes. These eyes can rotate, allowing the fish to look both upward and straight ahead. Their eyes also have bright green lenses protected ...

Deep down in the sea, where no light penetrates and where the availability of food is very low, life somehow exists in ways that can be considered strange or unexpected. Among the most intriguing ...

The ocean is still one of the biggest mysteries on Earth, and the deeper you go, the stranger it gets. Far below the surface, ...

The anemone is part of a new species, genus and family, according to the study. Photo by Yanghong Yu via Unsplash A “strange” creature recorded in the deep waters off the coast of Japan represents an ...

A strange sea creature washed ashore at Wollongong on Friday. Do you know what it is? Source: Andrew Murray Move over, sharks — another startling kind of sea creature has been spotted at a popular ...

Here’s a sentence you probably didn’t expect to read today: Thousands of strangers on the internet just collectively named a deep-sea creature that lives on sunken wood at the bottom of the ocean, and ...