LURKING beneath the ocean’s surface are a host of terrifying creatures most humans will only see in their nightmares. Yet, ...

A rarely seen deep-sea creature has just been captured on film—and what the camera revealed left researchers speechless.

Deep sea creatures like the anglerfish look terrifying. Turns out, there’s a reason for that. National Corporate funding for NOVA is provided by Carlisle Companies. Major funding for NOVA is ...

Discover some of the scary sea creatures you probably never knew existed. The oceans are home to numerous scary creatures ...

And unlike the more mainstream animals under the sea — seahorses, sharks, and even deep sea anglerfish — one cool member of the aquatic community isn’t talked about or printed on baby clothes.

Therefore sea pigs - and other deep-sea creatures - can look very different on the surface than they do in their natural habitat. The sea pig, for example, is typically more uniform when crawling ...

A decade ago astrophysicists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), operated by the California ...

Something approached the deep-sea animals, caught it and pulled it toward the surface. Aboard a research vessel, scientists looked at their catch. It turned out to be a new species. Researchers ...

It was a juvenile colossal squid, a mysterious deep-sea animal that can grow to weigh more than 1,000 pounds. The rare sight was filmed in March near the South Sandwich Islands in the South ...

Getty Images/iStockphoto Aboard a research vessel in the South China Sea, scientists scooped up some deep-sea muck and began ... a sieve and pulled out any animals they found, the study said.

Despite different timelines for making the deep sea their home, all the fishes studied living below 9,800 feet (3,000 m) showed the same type of mutation in the Rtf1 gene, which controls how DNA ...