A giant and rarely seen hoodwinker sunfish has washed up on a beach in northern California, baffling marine biologists and ...

Deep sea creatures are remarkably well adapted to their hellish environment. So why do we parade them as bizarre and weird?

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 ...

The vast array of organisms in the deep sea remains a mystery to humans. Now, marine biologists can add one more puzzle to the list. A collection of odd materials was discovered nearly four miles ...

An oceanographer was surprised when she caught a glimpse of an aquatic creature on a beach in Southern California, well ...

Sea Otter Awareness Week is celebrated annually from September 21 to September 27 to highlight not only why the keystone marine mammal needs to continue to be protected, but also the threats the ...

Given how underexplored the Pacific Ocean is, it is not surprising that new species are being discovered every time a manned or unmanned deep-water submersible is launched to document the species ...

The bumpy snailfish, discovered 10,000 feet down off the coast of California, shows that not all denizens of the abyss are ...

Scientists say sea monster is a new kind of animal. This unidentified specimen belonging within Relicanthidae is a sea creature that was previously thought to be a giant sea anemone (order Actiniaria) ...

Researchers travelling along the Kuril-Kamchatka and Aleutian trenches in the northwest Pacific Ocean used a submersible to ...

The 'cute' animal was spotted getting close to swimmers in the ocean but people were soon told to 'get out of the water'.

The sea is home to countless species of marine life, with humans sometimes coming into contact with them. Some beachgoers got ...