Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the ...

Strandings of these jellyfish-like animals, sometimes called "by-the-wind sailors," usually mean spring is coming ...

Found in the cold waters of the Southern Ocean, this elusive giant can grow up to 46 feet long. It has the largest eyes in ...

Giant isopods look like monstrously sized woodlice and can live in the deep sea, beyond the reach of daylight. But how much do we really know about the lives of these crustaceans? Despite their ...

Pyconogonids, or sea spiders, are found throughout the world’s oceans, but reach startlingly large sizes around the ... allow some animals to have very slow metabolisms and the ability to ...

While operating the deep-sea robot nearly 7,000 feet below the surface, the machine’s camera captured a creature that appeared to be “all legs” walking across the seafloor, according to a March 18 ...

Scientists found a “large”-eyed sea creature with “canine-like ... but something about the animal caught the attention of nearby scientists. It turned out to be a new species.

Oceans are large bodies of salt water ... some of the animals that inhabit the oceans and discover what some ocean animals do to protect themselves from predators.

The green turtle is a large, weighty sea turtle with a wide, smooth carapace, or shell. It inhabits tropical and subtropical coastal waters around the world and has been observed clambering onto ...