The odd-looking sunfish has a large, flat, round body with small fins. (Bill Hopper) The depths of the sea hold life forms that are truly beautiful, truly ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The deepest place on the planet may also hold the clues to the origin of life on Earth. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.

From the creepiest Cambrian critters to massive marine reptiles, wonderfully weird sea creatures have inhabited ... on the animals' place on the tree of life. Whatever they were, these monsters ...

Prehistoric Drama: Life and Death in Ancient Seas The seas ... and the relentless march of time. These strange sea dragons connect us to a world almost beyond imagination, where the boundaries ...

Pink and bulbous "sea pigs ... Some of the weird wildlife may even be previously undiscovered. "[We've collected] a really large diversity of a broad suite of marine life, and likely some ...

Article continues below In 2006, a weird sea creature left locals baffled after ... posted on Reddit by user 'im_peterrific', shows the bizarre life form with short, glossy tentacles and a shiny ...

Something unusual is happening in the oceans. Strange deep-sea creatures are surfacing, and marine life is behaving unpredictably. From the rare sighting of the so-called “doomsday fish” to ...

When the going gets tough, these strange sea creatures have the incredibly rare ... how spread this capacity is across the animal tree of life,” study author Joan J. Soto-Angel said in a statement.

Their symptoms included “a sore throat, dry cough and irritated eyes” or blurred vision. Dead sea dragons, fish and octopuses have also washed up on the beaches. Water samples have been taken ...

While these vents are immensely hot and have a high pressure, the surrounding areas are home to a variety of unique undersea life ... think of deep-sea fish as strange alien-like creatures ...