Researchers at MBARI, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, have been exploring this hidden world for years. Using ...

bioluminescence to attract food or meet other creatures. Australian researchers have succeeded in capturing a video of a deep-sea squid, with a maximum body size of 2.3 meters, waving around the ...

Down in the midnight zone, where light fades to nothing, a single breath becomes a long commitment. Sperm whales slip beneath the surface and vanish into cold pressure that would crush most animals.

The ocean is still one of the biggest mysteries on Earth, and the deeper you go, the stranger it gets. Far below the surface, ...

of the deep-sea squid 'Magnapinna pacifica' swimming. Magnapinna pacifica is a very rare squid that has only been witnessed in more than a dozen cases worldwide. It has been described as 'a squid in a ...

Explore the darkest corners of the abyss with 18 terrifying creatures found at the bottom of the ocean. These are Earth's ...

Since childhood, books, photography, and travel have been part of my world. Fascinated by life, by the stars, by landscapes that tell stories without a single word, I quickly realized that I needed to ...

Cephalopods—the class of animals that comprises octopuses and squids—are ubiquitous throughout the ocean, including in the deep sea. However, researchers still don't know very much about the ...

This haunting footage shows the bigfin squid Magnapinna looking exactly like a mythical monster in its natural habitat. The video was filmed by oil company Shell, near their Perdido drilling platform ...

A rare Indian octopus squid, Taningia silasii, has been discovered in the Arabian Sea, marking a significant find for deep-sea research. This second species in the Taningia genus, previously only ...

Perhaps it was hiding from predators. Or trying to catch food. Then again, maybe it just wanted to be left alone. By Elizabeth Preston Like a scarf out of a magician’s sleeve, the squid appeared.

A mysterious deep-sea creature has now offered scientists a rare look into the distant past, as new research uncovers clues hidden in its enormous genome. The findings prompted a simple question for ...