Thousands of strangers on the internet just collectively named a deep-sea creature that lives on sunken wood at the bottom of ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A marine creature that resembles the alien E.T. has been found growing in a prehistoric area of eastern Pacific seafloor rock. The “E.T. sponge” has been classified as a new species ...

The ocean is full of some incredibly odd creatures. It feels like the further you go down, the stranger and more alien-like they become. With so many interesting creatures, it makes you wonder, what ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sea creatures have adapted to help them thrive in extreme environments. Unusual features allow them to live thousands of feet ...

In the mysterious world of the ocean’s depths, there’s a creature so bizarre that it looks like it swam straight out of a sci-fi movie. Meet the goblin shark — an ancient, rarely seen predator whose ...

An alien-like creature 'from another planet' has washed up on a beach in the United Kingdom and been identified as a rarely seen sea creature. Georgina and Rob Pope were walking their dog, Nona, at ...

For an animal, surviving in the ocean’s deepest trenches requires remarkable adaptations: a gelatinous body that can withstand pressure, bioluminescent features to guide it, and a transparent ...

An alien-like Mola mola surprised surfers as it surfaced along the San Diego coastline, ultimately dying and washing ashore. “A rare Mola mola (ocean sunfish) washed up on our shore at Cardiff State ...

Meet the “ghost fish,” a phantom of the abyss. Here’s how we found the first ever proof of its existence just a few years ago. The deep sea is a part of the world that very few humans get the chance ...

Sea creatures have adapted to help them thrive in extreme environments. Unusual features allow them to live thousands of feet below the surface. Underwater robots give researchers a glimpse at some of ...

The bumpy snailfish, discovered 10,000 feet down off the coast of California, shows that not all denizens of the abyss are frightening. By Alexa Robles-Gil For an animal, surviving in the ocean’s ...