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.

In the deepest parts of the ocean, some creatures grow far larger than their relatives near the surface. This strange phenomenon, known as deep-sea gigantism, has produced enormous squid, giant ...

Q. Someone told me that the body and arms of calamari, like you eat in a restaurant, can be more than 40 feet long. I’m not sure I believe my buddy or what I read on the internet, so what are the ...

Forget Bigfoot. Some of the ocean's rarest animals have been spotted far less often than mythical monsters. Many live in the twilight zone, 650 to 3,300 feet below the surface, where just enough ...

A marine researcher has captured the first-ever video footage of a shark swimming in Antarctica’s near-freezing waters. The incredible footage, which you can see for yourself in this Instagram post, ...

This was the first observation of the creature in its natural habitat, and the identity of this species might surprise you ...

Come face-to-face (or, face-to-fossil) with prehistoric ocean predators in an upcoming exhibition from London’s Natural ...

Robotic and autonomous underwater vehicles have collected vast quantities of footage from the deep sea, but most of it hasn’t ...

High pressure in the deep ocean may squeeze nutrients from sinking “marine snow,” feeding deep-sea microbes and altering how ...