Boaters off the coast of California got the chance to spot a sea creature “trifecta.” “Calm seas” allowed for onlookers to spot a mixed pod of 60 Risso’s dolphins and bottlenose dolphins along with a ...

Human waste, mostly plastic, was found in abundance at the deepest part of the Mediterranean called the Calypso Deep, 3.1 ...

Screenshot 2025-03-19 161607© News 8 Now/YouTube Blobfish, a gelatinous deep-sea fish, grows up to 30cm and lives at depths ...

The blob sculpin The blob sculpin is a deep-sea fish that lives in cold waters as deep as 2,800 meters in the North Pacific Ocean. It’s part of the same family as blobfish and toadfish.

Unlike most deep-sea predators, the Vampire Squid feeds primarily on “marine snow”—a continuous shower of organic detritus falling from upper waters—using two retractile filaments to capture these ...

To survive the deep ocean, sea creatures need all kinds of adaptations that give them alien-like appearances, like huge eyes and needle-like teeth.

Blobfish. Image by Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. The blobfish gained internet fame after being voted the “World’s Ugliest Animal” in 2013, but this perception is based on a misunderstanding of ...

Bizarre creatures like vampire squid and blobfish make their home in the dark, cold, depths of the deep sea, but most of this watery realm remains a complete mystery. That's because humans have ...

Which meant that when deep sea scientists at the Schmidt Ocean Institute happened across one, while conducting research near the Pacific Ocean's Phoenix Islands, they were pretty happy.

The blobfish, once dubbed the "world's ugliest animal," has been named "Fish of the Year" by a New Zealand environmental group, the Mountain to Sea Conservation Trust, in an effort to raise ...

So, blobfish don’t really look like melting ice cream in their natural environment. Underwater, they’re shaped like tadpoles: big on the front end, tapering down to their tail.