Australia preserves one of the longest and most extraordinary fossil records on Earth, spanning more than 500 million years ...

Deep in the ocean, where food is scarce and sunlight never reaches, lives a strange giant crustacean known as the supergiant ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A rarely seen giant phantom jellyfish — a deep-sea creature with arms that can stretch up to 10 meters long — has been captured on ...

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 ...

Mucus, feces, skin and other shed tissue allowed researchers to investigate which creatures have been swimming in two deep-sea canyons without having to observe or catch them ...

ATLANTA (AP) - The Georgia Aquarium is giving visitors the chance to peer inside the bodies of giant sea creatures. The exhibit, "Sea Monsters Revealed: Aquatic Bodies," includes the preserved bodies ...

A "kraken-like" giant octopus might have been one of the most formidable predators around 100 million years ago, scientists have found. New research led by scientists from Japan's Hokkaido University, ...

Celebrate the unusual and weirdly wonderful creatures of our oceans, this World Ocean Day. For most of us, the ocean is ...

The ocean is full of surprises, and scientists are still finding creatures that seem almost unreal. From tiny reef animals to bizarre deep-sea species, these discoveries show just how much of the ...

We take a look at the reasons why marine animals typically grow much larger than land animals ...

Therefore, it is no surprise that people have found some truly strange things when exploring them. From ancient statues to ...

LOS ANGELES — A marine science instructor snorkeling off the Southern California coast spotted something out of a fantasy novel: the silvery carcass of an 18-foot-long, serpent-like oarfish. Jasmine ...