Explore the darkest corners of the abyss with 18 terrifying creatures found at the bottom of the ocean. These are Earth's ...

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 ...

Credit: Peter Clarke/RMIT University/Cover Images Engineers have built a tiny “sea creature” robot that hoovers up oil spills using a filter inspired by sea urchins. Researchers at RMIT University in ...

A mysterious deep-sea squid filmed 4.1 km below the Pacific can disguise itself as the ocean floor, raising new questions about hidden marine life and what we still don’t know.

Advanced 3D reconstructions of the comb jelly’s aboral organ reveal a sensory system far more complex than scientists expected. The organ contains a wide variety of specialized cells and is closely ...

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.

Octopuses are perhaps the most unusual creatures to have ever inhabited the ocean. Their soft body, eight arms, and high ...

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

RMIT University engineers in Australia have built a remote-controlled minibot that hoovers up oil spills using an innovative filtering system inspired by sea urchins. Oil spills are still a serious ...

Fishermen hoping to catch monkfish instead pulled up a 14-foot skeleton of a mysterious sea creature in the 1990s. What we ...

How artist Arina Bovenich's job at a remote biology research station transformed into a unique craft practice.