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.

No matter their appearance, one thing all species of frogfish have in common is their strange mode of locomotion ... according to the Marine Census of Life. Sea angels have special parapodia ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...