One ambitious company has a plan to establish a colony of adventurous humans beneath the sea, but scientists have some doubts ...

Scientists exploring the ocean’s deepest trenches have uncovered a secret world teeming with bizarre and otherworldly ...

Explorers know that the Earth’s oceans are vast, covering about 71% of the surface of the globe. According to a new study, ...

These spiny or slimy ocean creatures display an astonishing diversity of appearances, behaviors and lifestyles—and many are ...

The never-before-seen footage of sea creatures struggling in fishing nets is featured in National Geographic’s new documentary Ocean with David Attenborough.

The elusive giant squid has only been filmed swimming alive in its natural habitat twice. The latest was off the coast of New ...

Hundreds of thousands of Velella velella, more commonly known as by-the-wind-sailors, are drifting onto the coastline.

Human eyes have only seen a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of the areas of the world that are covered by deep water. Scientists ...

Endomyarian anemones are stunning, and researchers spent 20 months observing them to understand their role on the seafloor.

A remotely operated submersible saw the “semi-gelatinous” animal lying on the ocean floor and “flying underwater.” Take a ...

The glass squid's method of camouflaging involves using transparency. There are around 60 species of glass squid.

While this most recent rare fish spotting might not be as rare as spotting a humpback anglerfish, it still has outdoor enthusiasts who were jazzed to spot a longnose lancetfish ( Alepisaurus ferox) on ...