A transparent goby fish drifted through the darkness, its skeleton visible through paper-thin skin. Nearby, a sea slug wore ...

Beneath the ocean's surface lies a world of perpetual darkness, home to some of Earth's most bizarre and fascinating creatures. These deep-sea inhabitants have evolved extraordinary adaptations to ...

Deep-sea creatures are some of the most skilled survivalists in the world. They endure isolation, extreme temperatures, and ...

The 30cm-long (11.8in) juvenile was spotted at a depth of 600m (1,968ft), near the South Sandwich Islands in the south ...

Dozens of places across the U.S. will ring in 2026 by dropping a quirky assortment of fruits, vegetables, sea creatures and ...

Most of us think of long lifespans and immediately picture giant tortoises or ancient oak trees. But the animal world is full of unexpected creatures that live far longer than you’d ever guess.

Lanice spongicola lives on a glass sponge, a deep-sea sponge with a skeleton made of silica, that rises from hard rock. The worm builds a thin mucus tube on the lower part of the sponge and presses ...

Hundreds of sea animals from a controversial and now-shuttered South Florida aquarium have relocated to Dallas. In a social ...

A bumpy snailfish, Andean mouse opossum and ancient sea cow were just some of the many species described in 2025.

Their ability to walk on land grants the species greater mobility. Officials sound alarm as hairy sea creature spreads across ...

For all of humanity’s ventures to outer space, we’ve yet to see 99.999% of the deep-sea floor. In the latest subaquatic news, researchers discovered some 4,000 marine species, 88% of which were new ...

Meet animals that grow for a lifetime, sometimes for centuries, and discover why dinosaurs did not, despite their huge size.