From bone-eating snot-flowers to snowboarding scale worms, when a whale dies it becomes a colossal island of nutrients – attracting weird and wonderful creatures to feast.

Deep down in the sea, where no light penetrates and where the availability of food is very low, life somehow exists in ways that can be considered str.

With growing interest in mining critical metals from the seafloor, countries are now negotiating international rules. The ...

Iskra’s glitter worm and the Elven abyss tunicate among top species recognized by the World Register of Marine Species Scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography described two of ...

Reaching over 30 feet long, the mysterious giant oarfish is the real-life "sea serpent" behind centuries of myths and legends ...

Beneath the surface of the ocean lives a group of animals that are unlike almost anything on land. Known as arthropods, these creatures include crabs, lobsters, shrimp and many lesser known species ...

Those bizarre sea creatures that light up like carnival rides are actually ctenophores, which have an ancient brainlike structure.

The Archipelagos Institute has released footage of Risso’s dolphins, one of the least understood and most elusive cetacean ...

Rogue waves were dismissed as nonsense for centuries, until New Year's Day in 1995. Their counterpart – rogue holes – were only proved real in 2012.

Although commonly described as a tsunami, the titular wave in The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai is more likely an example of a large rogue wave. For centuries, sailors spoke of two maritime ...