The Hydrolagus trolli, the pointy-nosed blue chimaera, or “ghost shark,” is unlike any other on earth. Sightings are rare, ...

The project comes at a perilous moment for these creatures. Since 2022, sea urchins have been plagued by a scuticociliate, a single-celled pathogen that eats away at the animals’ soft tissue and ...

Most of what we know about the elusive creature comes from research on its remains found in whale stomachs, but scientists ...

Two research expeditions have captured the first footage of two squid species — a colossal squid and a glacial glass squid — ...

In the rocky terrain of the Arabian peninsula, researchers have discovered the black desert cobra, Walterinnesia aegyptia, in ...

There are several types of camouflage in the animal kingdom. Most people think of insects that can blend into a pile of ...

An Orange Beach visitor yesterday snapped a photo of a rare Gulf Coast sighting ... is actually a species of siphonophore, a group of animals that are closely related to jellyfish, according ...

Beachgoers in Spain found themselves watching a first-of-its-kind sight after an endangered sea creature washed ashore and ...

Armed with lab equipment and two months of food and clothes, around 60 researchers boarded the RSV Nuyina icebreaker ship for ...