In July and August scientists onboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor (too) spotted the oddities through ...

An expedition to a volcanically active ridge in the Pacific off South America has revealed worms, snails, giant tubeworms and other strange creatures lurking below steamy underwater hot springs.

Strange animals found at the bottom of the ocean challenge our current understanding of life, scientists have said. Researchers diving almost 10,000 meters deep into the Pacific Ocean found tube ...

An expedition to a volcanically active ridge in the Pacific off South America has revealed worms, snails, giant tubeworms and other strange creatures lurking below steamy underwater hot springs.

The ostentatious spikes of a newly described ankylosaur fossil suggest that its armor evolved via sexual selection.

Lots of bizarre deep sea creatures were spotted in 2022. Here are some of our favorites.

NEW ORLEANS -- The creatures living in the depths of the ocean are as weird and outlandish as the creations in a Dr. Seuss book: tentacled transparent sea cucumbers, primitive "dumbos" that flap ...

CARTERET COUNTY, N.C. (WGHP) — North Carolina museum workers identified some strange creatures they found recently. Back in July, members of the turtle patrol team with the Cape Lookout National ...

The result is that the deep sea hosts many creatures that are unknown or not well understood to science. The scientists on Okeanos Explorer are working furiously to change that.

Weird life flourishes at deep-sea vents the world over, but no one had ever found hydrothermal vents in Antarctica, explained Jon Copley, a professor of earth and ocean science at the University ...

Weird Creatures From the Deep A massive census of the oceans has turned up a trove of strange marine wildlife, from jellyfish to octopuses to anemones August 5, 2010 ...