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.

Deep beneath the waters surrounding several Caribbean islands, scientists exploring the ocean floor have uncovered a ...

Marine animals living in the cold, dark depths of the ocean are interconnected across the world by a hidden “superhighway”, a groundbreaking new study suggests. The research, published in the journal ...

Beneath the surface of the ocean lives a group of animals that are unlike almost anything on land. Known as arthropods, these creatures include crabs, lobsters, shrimp and many lesser known species ...

The deep sea is inhabited by many creatures that are unlike any other in the world, and the coffinfish is certainly one of the strangest. Dubbed the s.

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

NEW YORK — An underwater voyage has revealed a network of creatures thriving at the bottom of deep-sea ocean trenches. In these extreme environments, the crushing pressure, scant food and lack of ...

A group of “rarely seen” Gervais’ beaked whales was recently spotted near Madeira, a Portuguese archipelago, photos show. Screengrab from the Magic Dolphin ecotour agency A mysterious group of ...

In total, the team found nearly 300 different types of underwater species during their six week mission. Find out more here.

The new finding, made by researchers in a new era for marine biology, is the first such discovery of footage of an undescribed species of whiplash squid; this creature is capable of having an ...