Arctic glacial fjords are hotspots of marine life, yet their seafloor environments remain some of the least explored regions ...

Forget Bigfoot. Some of the ocean's rarest animals have been spotted far less often than mythical monsters. Many live in the twilight zone, 650 to 3,300 feet below the surface, where just enough ...

The giant squid was detected along with over 220 species, including some that might have never been discovered before.

Researchers detected a giant squid off Western Australia using environmental DNA, marking a rare discovery in a largely ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two deep-sea oarfish — nicknamed “doomsday fish” for their folkloric ties to earthquakes — washed up near the shoreline in Cabo ...

Field expeditions in marine biology can be unpredictable. Sometimes, they yield little more than old barnacles; other times, they result in stunning ocean footage and the discovery of dozens of ...

Scientists have detected giant squid DNA in deep waters off Western Australia for the first time in more than 25 years using ...

Scientists on California’s Central Coast recently spotted a giant, evasive seven-arm octopus while on a research expedition in Monterey Bay.The rare creature, called Haliphron atlanticus, was seen by ...

Here’s a sentence you probably didn’t expect to read today: Thousands of strangers on the internet just collectively named a deep-sea creature that lives on sunken wood at the bottom of the ocean, and ...