We know surprisingly little about the deep ocean or the strange creatures that live there. These unusual animals have evolved ...

The first new species, Peltospira gargantua, was found on a black smoker chimney in the Hydra field at a depth of about 12,300 feet, researchers said.

A three-foot-long Antarctic gonate squid was spotted swimming 7,000 feet below the surface of the Southern Ocean ...

A rare and adorable sea snail surprised this nature lover on a Japanese pilgrimage While walking a sacred trail on Shikoku Island, Japan, Elena Egorov from Queensland, Australia discovered an ...

Sea butterflies, which also have to be seen to be believed, are tiny sea snails, and they are the preferred meal of the sea angels. Sea angels often get the upper hand on sea butterflies, because ...

KFAR ADUMIM, Israel—It was four decades ago that three childhood friends from New Jersey who had immigrated to Israel heard of a young Jerusalem rabbinical student who was looking for scuba ...

Sterman, 63, from Efrat, went on to found the Ptil Tekhelet nonprofit in this Jerusalem bedroom community on the road to the Dead Sea. It obtains snails to produce the biblical dye. The sixth-century ...

have far-reaching ecological roles in cleaning seawater—and becoming food for predators including sea snails and slugs. Their super-glue strength and penchant to pile on together in crowded ...

A seashell is a hard, protective outer layer created by an animal or organism that lives in the sea, such as snails, clams and oysters. After the animal living in the shell dies and decomposes, the ...

A seashell is a hard, protective outer layer created by an animal or organism that lives in the sea, such as snails, clams and oysters. After the animal living in the shell dies and decomposes ...

This slow-moving sea snail doesn’t chase its prey. It shoots a venomous harpoon so fast, the victim doesn’t even see it coming. One sting can paralyse a human, and there’s no antivenom.

Watch elusive New Zealand snail lay an egg through a 'genital pore' in its neck Strange 'sea pigs,' sea spiders and a spawning 'butterfly' discovered on Antarctic ocean floor by scientists ...