The ‘David Packard’ is named for the Silicon Valley pioneer who donated more than $1 billion to ocean research.

In a discovery that has stirred wonder across the marine biology world, a colossal squid—long considered a near-mythical ...

Beneath the sparkling blue waves of the Pacific lies a hidden world teeming with biodiversity, wonder, and weirdness. At Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, visitors ...

An expedition spotted a baby of the species in the South Sandwich Islands. This cephalopod can grow to more than 20 feet and has proved elusive in its deep-sea environs.

No deep-sea adventure is complete without an unusually enormous fish sighting ... with a tiny mouth and big eyes that vanish ...

The specimens were the bycatch of a fishing vessel in the South China Sea, which researchers later bought to study.

While operating the deep-sea robot nearly 7,000 feet below ... and they diffuse oxygen through their tissue, the aquarium said. Sea spiders use their spindly legs to scuttle across the sea floor ...

Scientists surveying deep-sea life off an island in southeast Asia captured a tantalizing glimpse into the life of a poorly known and mysterious ocean animal. Last November, a team of researchers ...

Our special video series looks at some of the more unique shells at the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum on Sanibel, Florida.