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

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

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 its ...

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 ...

Black Devil Fish usually stayed between 200 and 2,000 metres down in the inky deep sea. Researchers think this is the firs time ever an adult of the species, scientific name Melanocetus johnsonii ...

Deep sea expedition uncovers more than 50 never-before-seen species off the coast of Chile - from a 'flying spaghetti monster' to a glow-in-the-dark dragonfish An expedition found 160 species in ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...