Scientists filmed a squid covering itself in mud and holding its tentacles upright, using camouflage that helps it hide on the ocean floor.

This is the moment deep sea explorers captured an incredibly elusive creature on camera – the giant phantom jellyfish. Eerie footage shows the rare animal, which has only been filmed around a dozen ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr Michelle Taylor's research team made international headlines when they discovered an elusive colossal squid [Michelle Taylor] ...

A dome-fronted submersible sinks beneath the waves off Indonesia, heading down nearly 1,000 meters in search of new species, ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — An underwater voyage has revealed a network of creatures thriving at the bottom of deep-sea ocean trenches. In these extreme environments, the crushing pressure, scant food and lack of ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Deep under the Mediterranean Sea, researchers made a disturbing discovery in an unexplored canyon 1000 meters deep ...

As you get closer to the bottom of the ocean, it gets darker, denser and stranger. All light from the surface has been absorbed, and only the most adapted species can navigate the lack of oxygen in ...

As Dr Michelle Taylor took a moment to breathe in the icy Antarctic air, a stark realisation sunk in. The nearest humans, aside from her immediate colleagues, were hundreds of miles away on the ...