Their residence attracts shrimp, fish and many other creatures. These deep-sea oases are just some of many areas of the ocean floor that scientists are only beginning to explore, discovering new ...

Scientists on an icebreaker ship have captured a number of weird and wacky animals from Antarctica's ocean floor, including a bizarre pig-shaped creature.

A colossal squid was filmed for the first time in its natural habitat near the South Sandwich Islands during a recent ...

Love isn’t just roses, chocolates, or long walks on the beach. In the ocean, romance takes on wild forms—tail-holding, ...

Strandings of these jellyfish-like animals, sometimes called "by-the-wind sailors," usually mean spring is coming ...

A couple captured footage of a giant squid captured by a couple while swimming off of Japan, Toyooka City in Hyogo Prefecture while diving back in 2023.

The species with “deep-sea gigantism” was spotted off the remote South ... All linked stories were reported, written and edited by McClatchy journalists. Unique creatures, odd animals and new species ...

Scientists have discovered a “thriving ecosystem” of strange deep-sea ­creatures on a newly exposed sea floor after an iceberg broke off near the Antarctic. The area, which had never before ...

Four kilometres below the surface of the Tasman Sea is a strange world inhabited by even stranger creatures. In its autumn ...

Scientists have discovered a “thriving ecosystem” of strange deep sea creatures on a newly exposed seafloor after an iceberg broke off near the Antarctic.

Unique creatures ... or sea spider. This marine arthropod, found nearly 7,000 feet below the surface, is remarkable for its “abundantly large” size, attributed to deep-sea gigantism.