Reaching over 30 feet long, the mysterious giant oarfish is the real-life "sea serpent" behind centuries of myths and legends ...

The ocean is full of weird and wonderful creatures, and scientists have only scratched the surface of what lurks beneath the waves. But some of the sea life they have discovered are downright ...

Kangaroo Islanders are concerned about the amount of marine life washing up dead on local beaches. It comes less than a fortnight after a large-scale fish kill on Fleurieu Peninsula beaches, where the ...

A deep-sea predator equipped with tubular, light-amplifying eyes and a highly specialized jaw system is capturing scientists' attention for its extraordinary ability to thrive in pitch-black waters.

The deep sea is cold, dark and under immense pressure. Yet life has found a way to prevail there, in the form of some of Earth's strangest creatures. Since deep-sea critters have adapted to near ...

About 5,000 species of crustaceans in the order Isopoda live in Earth’s oceans. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, they all have two pairs of antennae, compound eyes, ...

When Ted Judah goes scuba diving off the coast in Monterey Bay, he normally swims at the surface to the area above the dive site and then descends. But on the morning of Dec. 30, the water was ...

Two deep-sea oarfish - nicknamed "doomsday fish" for their folkloric ties to earthquakes - washed up near the shoreline in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, stunning beachgoers and sparking online fascination, ...

The bumpy snailfish, discovered 10,000 feet down off the coast of California, shows that not all denizens of the abyss are frightening. By Alexa Robles-Gil For an animal, surviving in the ocean’s ...