Scientists have filmed a living goblin shark for the first time ever, capturing the 125-million-year-old 'living fossil' deep ...

Before recent findings, goblin sharks were only recorded after being hooked on a fishing line and hauled to the surface, ...

The ocean is still one of the biggest mysteries on Earth, and the deeper you go, the stranger it gets. Far below the surface, where sunlight can't reach, lives a world full of creatures that look more ...

The vast majority of our planet remains a complete mystery, hidden beneath miles of crushing water where sunlight never penetrates. In this eternal darkness, evolution has taken a path so bizarre that ...

Known as Dalhousiella yabukii, the worm resides inside a glass sea sponge—a simple marine animal that forms a glass-like skeleton—in the cold, dark waters off the coast of Japan. And it’s just one of ...

Deep-sea creatures so alien their discoverers struggled to believe them real ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Far below the ocean’s surface, where sunlight can’t reach, some of the most unusual creatures on Earth thrive in complete darkness ...

A potentially undescribed siphonophore. (ROV SuBastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute) An oceanic expedition has turned up 31 new ...

Here’s a sentence you probably didn’t expect to read today: Thousands of strangers on the internet just collectively named a deep-sea creature that lives on sunken wood at the bottom of the ocean, and ...

Its presence could make a minuscule fish downright jelly. Scientists were awestruck after discovering a schoolbus-sized phantom jellyfish off the coast of Argentina, as seen in incredible footage shot ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Beneath the neon lights of a laser-scanning microscope, newly classified species glow ...

The bottom of the ocean has barely been explored, but every journey to the deep reveals wondrous new lifeforms. As underwater mining gains momentum, we risk destroying one of the Earth’s last great wi ...