From worms with squid-like tentacles to fish with teeth on their tongues, here are some of the most alien-looking creatures ...

Here is our list of the top 10 weirdest deep-sea creatures seen in 2021. Blood-red jellyfish This mysteries red jelly may be a new species previously unknown to science, NOAA researchers say.

The Homo sapiens view of our world is all a matter of perspective, and we need to remember that we’re among the larger creatures on Earth. At around 1.7 meters in length, we’re much closer in size to ...

The bizarre life of the sea’s middle depths has long been a challenge to see, study and fathom. The creatures of that realm live under crushing pressures at icy temperatures in pitch darkness.

The O-18 has a temperature-dependent affinity for the calcium carbonate which forms the shells of many sea creatures. “By analyzing the ratio of O-18 to regular oxygen in the shells, we can tell ...

Sabrina Imbler is the author of the forthcoming book “How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures.” A remotely operated vehicle filmed a life-form this summer on the seafloor that ...

Animalia Scientists detected 5,000 sea creatures nobody knew existed. It’s a warning. The vast majority of animals in a potential deep-sea mining hot spot in the Pacific are new to science ...

In a new study, scientists report that deep-sea corals that lived 540 million years ago may have been the first animals to glow, far earlier than previously thought.

Jeffrey Marlow writes about an innovation in oceanic research, Deep P.I.V.—created by the scientist Kakani Katija—which helps one study gelata, thin and delicate sea creatures that cannot be ...

Land Creatures Might Not Have Come From The Sea Conventional wisdom holds that complex life evolved in the sea, then crawled up onto land. But a provocative new study argues that the procession ...

The deep sea is home to weird and wonderful creatures that, over millions of years, have evolved specific traits to survive the extreme conditions of their habitat. These adaptations to their ...