The vampire squid is a small deep-sea creature that lives in low-oxygen tropical and temperate oceans. It survives using ...

A fossil found in southwest Germany in 1978 has been deemed to represent a new species of marine reptile known as a ...

All these characteristics make many of them look more like something out of a horror movie than the adorable creatures we are ...

A deep-sea fish species with unusual cheek patterns has been discovered in the South China Sea after it was listed on online seafood markets. The fish has been named Branchiostegus sanae because ...

A deep sea "monster" seen in daylight recently shook the internet. But what few know is that another was spotted in the US. So few have been seen since the species was discovered that even when ...

A rare deep-sea fish was spotted in San Diego, one of just 20 that have washed up in California in over a century. Kayakers and snorkelers came across a 12-foot oarfish in La Jolla Cove last ...

A Deep-Sea Fish of Nightmares Strays Into Shallow Waters A scary-looking creature with “devil” in its name was spotted close to the surface off Tenerife, a Spanish island.

Glow-in-the-dark dragonfish and flying spaghetti monsters are only some of the 160 species found by an expedition to chart Chile's underwater mountains.

The deep sea is not that productive, and you can understand why – there's very little sunlight, so the normal processes of growth in animals is very slow. They also live very long.