Six animals pulled from the deep ocean were so biologically distinct that researchers had to create entirely new taxonomic ...

The super rare and mysterious type of shark has been captured on video swimming deep in the Pacific Ocean. The footage is ...

Scientists working from deep-sea submersibles and museum collections have formally named a striking batch of new species this ...

Scientists say they’ve found more than 1,100 new marine species over the last year, emphasizing how unexplored the ocean really is.

A potentially undescribed siphonophore. (ROV SuBastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute) An oceanic expedition has turned up 31 new ...

The post Creatures So Strange They Were Once Mistaken for Monsters appeared first on A-Z Animals. Centuries before modern science could more accurately explain the natural world, brief animal ...

The researchers saw many strange animals — many believed to be new to science — living off the whale carcasses.

A newly discovered deep-sea creature has become an unlikely Internet star. After appearing in a popular YouTube video, a rare chiton found nearly three miles beneath the ocean surface sparked a global ...

The discovery of a strange deep-sea mollusc sparked a global naming effort online, with researchers finally choosing a species name meaning "of the people". Scientists first discovered the deep-sea ...

The ocean is still one of the biggest mysteries on Earth, and the deeper you go, the stranger it gets. Far below the surface, where sunlight can't reach, lives a world full of creatures that look more ...