On the flip side, a new paper in Cell shows how supergiant deep-sea animals can survive for as long as five years without ...

Deep in the ocean, where food is scarce and sunlight never reaches, lives a strange giant crustacean known as the supergiant ...

Scientists have uncovered the genetic secrets behind a novel strategy that allows the supergiant bathynomid to survive ...

For centuries, giant squid have been treated as deep-sea legends - massive, elusive predators rarely seen by human eyes. Growing up to 60 feet long and living far below the ocean's surface, they were ...

Imagine you are on some distant beach centuries ago and something huge emerges from the depths of the ocean. It has a longer body than most boats, lined with dozens of razor sharp teeth and eyes ...

Mucus, feces, skin and other shed tissue allowed researchers to investigate which creatures have been swimming in two deep-sea canyons without having to observe or catch them ...

The kraken — a gigantic, tentacled sea monster capable of dragging ships and sailors down into the depths — is a creature of Norwegian myth. But millions of years ago, a similar real-life animal ...

Field expeditions in marine biology can be unpredictable. Sometimes, they yield little more than old barnacles; other times, they result in stunning ocean footage and the discovery of dozens of ...

The DNA of the "elusive" giant squid has been detected in deep underwater canyons off the coast of Western Australia, marking the first detection in decades, according to a newly published study.

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 ...