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Researchers identified 24 new creatures and an entire superfamily of species in the Pacific, all while NOAA moves to ...

Could the source of a mysterious "bloop" sound be an unknown sea creature? In 1997, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

Glittery sea worms and sea squirts fit for "The Lord of the Rings" universe might sound like pure fantasy, but they're very ...

The video above takes viewers beneath the waters off Bali, Indonesia, where a truly unusual marine animal glides across the seafloor. At first glance, it looks almost unreal — soft, translucent, and ...

Engineers have created a tiny robot inspired by sea creatures to help clean up oil spills. Developed at RMIT University in Melbourne, the “Electronic Dolphin” is designed to skim oil directly from the ...

It’s not uncommon for newly discovered species to make the news, especially when they are found 5,500 meters underwater. What is unusual, though, is when the naming of the species gets as much ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have recorded a rare sighting of a shark in Antarctic waters. Jessica Kolbusz — an oceanographer at the ...

The shark was spotted in near-freezing waters, which most species can't withstand A sleeper shark has been spotted in the frigid waters surrounding Antarctica for the first time The sleeper shark was ...

Here’s a sentence you probably didn’t expect to read today: Thousands of strangers on the internet just collectively named a deep-sea creature that lives on sunken wood at the bottom of the ocean, and ...

A newly discovered deep-sea creature has become an unlikely Internet star. After appearing in a popular YouTube video, a rare chiton found nearly three miles beneath the ocean surface sparked a global ...