When a beachgoer in Santa Barbara, California, spotted a young seal with what looked like a squid in her mouth, it seemed ...

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Researchers have captured the first ever video footage of a colossal squid, one of the largest and rarest marine animals on the planet. A team of international ocean scientists were using a remotely ...

Deep beneath the ocean, at depths of over 1,200 meters, sperm whales enter a world of total darkness — where pressure is more than 120 times higher than at the surface. In this environment, most ...

Genomic analysis reveals squid and cuttlefish evolved in deep oceans, survived mass extinction in refuges, and later rapidly diversified, following a “long fuse” evolutionary pattern.

Some animals are so unusual that they barely look real, and transparent creatures are among the strangest of them all. These ...

This week, scientists announced that they had captured the first confirmed video of a colossal squid in its natural habitat, recorded some 1,968 feet (600 m) below the ocean surface near the South ...

From color-changing skin to jet-propelled motion, squid and cuttlefish have long fascinated scientists. To understand the origins of their unique characteristics, many attempts have been made to ...

This past July and August scientists onboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor (too) spotted the oddities through the eyes of an underwater robot as they explored the Mar del Plata ...

An elusive deep-sea squid species was caught on camera for the first time ever in a major breakthrough. National Geographic, on June 10, revealed the "history-making sighting" of a massive, three-foot ...