Scientists uncover rare parasitic snails living inside sea cucumbers in Japan—offering new insights into unusual animal relationships.

With ear-like fins that flap gracefully through the water, the Dumbo octopus in this YouTube video looks like it waltzed ...

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

Climate change, plastic pollution, disappearing ecosystems, and industrial overreach are converging into a single, planetary ...

Exploration on Google Earth led to an astonishing discovery: a massive rock formation protruding from a remote desert landscape, revealing the remains of an ancient seabed. This desolate area, once ...

About 330 feet below the surface, a spherical shell of concrete rested on the ... Giant concrete spheres anchored to the ocean floor are an innovative approach to the world’s increasing energy ...

Sea creatures have adapted to help them thrive ... Instead, this creature subsists on marine snow, organic material that falls to the ocean floor as dead animals decay. The cephalopod gets its ...

For a moment, they continued falling to the sea floor ... the ocean, which can make it less hospitable for life. Some crustaceans, for example, have a hard time developing hard outer shells ...

Footage of a submersible capturing some intriguing footage of a pre-historic sea animal has resurfaced, as it was making its way across the ocean floor ... will leave you shell-shocked.