A siphonophore—a colonial marine invertebrate related to the venomous stinging Portuguese Man-o-war—is scanned using Deep ...

A fishing trip of the California coast last week produced an extraordinary catch: a type of octopus that constructs its own shell to ride ocean currents.

He cooks three strange ocean animals that each come with a disturbing twist: a baby stingray with a serrated blade on its ...

A hidden wildlife camera captured a fascinating close-up of a forest slug feeding on a ripe wild strawberry, revealing a ...

Lionfish, mitten crabs and “sea vomit.” Meet eight marine species inadvertently brought to new territory that are taking the ...

Urokodia aequalis, an early Cambrian marine predator from the Chengjiang biota of China, preserves the earliest known evidence of chelicerae -- the pincer-like structures that later evolved into the ...

From the Greys to the Nordics, these aliens appear frequently across abduction stories and science fiction tales.

The origin of turtles has puzzled scientists. A new study provides more evidence that these shelled reptiles share a common ...

Perhaps a part-robot, part-insect giant cockroach capable of diving underwater for as much as three hours at a time. In a new ...

Hidden beneath the water's surface is a botanical world that is among nature's most innovative and ecologically important.

These real-life ocean animals were so terrifying to seafarers that they became embedded in history as legendary sea monsters ...

It might share its name with the largest meat-eating dinosaur that ever lived, but this isn’t the T.rex we all know and ...