After studying rocks more than 541 million years old, MIT scientists have found new evidence that some of Earth’s first ...

One of the world’s rarest whale species is having more babies this year than in some recent seasons, but experts say many ...

Like a scene out of a Jules Verne novel, scientists from Schmidt Ocean Institute recently encountered a giant phantom jelly ...

For years, scientists feared the vaquita porpoise would quietly vanish from the planet — another species lost before most ...

A wildlife photographer has captured what are believed to be the first underwater images of the rare, elusive Ross seal.

Wildlife ambassador Savannah Ekelem took videos which showed tourists illegally handling the delicate creatures washed in by ...

Yet, jellyfish tend to sleep through the night like humans, and even nap around midday. Meanwhile, their close relative, the ...

The deep sea also harbours some of the most intriguing and alien-like species in existence, yet for several centuries, these ...

This is the moment deep sea explorers captured an incredibly elusive creature on camera - the giant phantom jellyfish.

Far below the ocean’s surface, where sunlight disappears and pressure reaches crushing levels, some of the planet’s strangest ...

To get to the bottom of it, they looked at the fish’s anatomy and physiology and discovered something curious in their gills.

Polar bear attacks on humans are extremely rare, but experts say that shrinking sea ice is pushing them to approach inhabited ...