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 July and August scientists onboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor (too) spotted the oddities through the eyes of an underwater robot as they explored the Mar del Plata Canyon.

A BIZARRE ancient sea creature with a twisted jaw and sideways-facing teeth has been uncovered. The creature’s mouth was so ...

The world is full of strange creatures, and researchers discover new animal species every year. The oddities of fauna tend to become ever so much stranger when we leave the dry land and turn our gaze ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What are these strange creatures washing up on Texas beaches, and why are they dying? Here's what the experts have to say.

Meet the “ghost fish,” a phantom of the abyss. Here’s how we found the first ever proof of its existence just a few years ago. The deep sea is a part of the world that very few humans get the chance ...

Everything really is bigger — and stranger — in Texas. This year proved the Lone Star State is full of wild surprises after several Texans spotted some rare and unusual encounters with sea creatures ...

British researchers have unveiled a series of remarkable discoveries in the waters surrounding the UK's Caribbean territories. The expedition, conducted aboard the RSS James Cook, has revealed an ...

People aren’t the only ones flooding the beaches along the coast of Northern California this month. In recent weeks, seemingly alien creatures have been found washed up in Monterey Bay, according to ...

The Gulf of Mexico is home to many species, and sometimes strange creatures and sharks wash ashore due to high tides or weather. Whether it was an eyeball-looking thing or shape-shifting blobs, MySA ...