For the first time, Antarctic krill have been found on seafloor vents. One scientist is working to figure out what they are ...

In the deep seas found at the Earth’s poles, explorers are still finding elusive and mysterious sea creatures. On an ...

This is, to the best of my knowledge, the first live footage of this animal worldwide,” Kat Bolstad of Auckland University of ...

Since 2022, sea urchins have been plagued by a scuticociliate, a single-celled pathogen that eats away at the animals’ soft tissue and makes their spines fall off.

7 sea creatures we can’t believe are real. From mysterious colossal squid to the ferocious pram bug, these creatures are stranger than fiction.

Scientists have documented what might be the first case of friendly interactions between killer whales and smaller cetaceans. Here's what they think is going on.

Scientists are unraveling the mysteries of the ocean’s squishiest creatures—including one jelly that might be the oldest ...

In a scientific first, researchers have tagged wild smalleye stingrays, the world’s largest and rarest marine stingray, in Mozambique. These monstrous Pacific Ocean fish, which can reach up to ...

Nesting sea turtles leave about 75 percent of their energy on land in the form of eggs and hatchlings before they return to sea. A Poorer World So, turtles do a lot for the world’s ecology.

The Gonatus antarcticus squid, found only in the waters around Antarctica, was spotted at a depth of approx. 2152 meters in ...