Siobhan McSweeney will narrate Hold Fast! – an eight-part series telling the extraordinary true story of a cargo ship locked ...

The oceans are home to some of the most bizarre and mysterious creatures on Earth, and sharks are no exception. While many people are familiar with the great white shark or hammerhead, the deep seas ...

The festival of the sea is an "opportunity to show the weird and wonderful marine life that we have", a conservation charity ...

Researchers sequenced the knotty sea spider’s genome for the first time, revealing a missing gene that many other animals ...

At first, it didn’t go well. The eight-top table for solo travelers was half-empty, and it quickly became apparent that none ...

It's not easy to look at a sea spider and see an animal so representative of its kind that it may help scientists sort out ...

A microbe found in deep-sea mud is rewriting what it means to be alive. S. mirabile defies categories—neither virus nor cell, ...

Does extraterrestrial life smell like the sea? It might or might not be the smell of aliens, but dimethyl sulfide — and its funky odor — definitely gets around ...

Moving from the deep sea to shallower coastal waters, the Sarcastic Fringehead (Neoclinus blanchardi) demonstrates that strange creatures aren’t limited to the ocean depths. This territorial fish, ...

The ocean, covering over 70% of our planet, is a mysterious realm teeming with life yet largely unexplored. Among its many enigmas are the unexplained sounds that echo through its depths, sparking ...

On top of this, many sea cucumbers host dozens of life-forms in and on their bodies—including the cloaca-inhabiting pearlfish.

Scientists find "sea pigs," "butterflies" on ocean floor Using a beam trawler, the team pulled up heavy mud containing several interesting bottom-dwelling creatures. A camera was also deployed to ...