The deepest parts of Earth’s oceans are home to creatures so bizarre they seem more like aliens than animals . In the crushing darkness of the Mariana Trench, transparent-headed fish rotate glowing ...

The Australian swell shark has been captured displaying an extraordinary phenomenon – glowing green in the dark.

Somewhere in the pitch-black water column off the Galápagos Islands, a translucent worm drifted in front of a deep-sea camera ...

A new MBARI video showcases Japetella diaphana, a rare open-water octopus that switches between transparent and opaque orange to evade predators in the ocean's twilight zone, where a mother carries ...

Discovering a Texas beach that doesn’t require you to fight for parking or listen to someone’s Bluetooth speaker blasting ...

Somewhere off Darwin Island in the Galápagos, a remotely operated vehicle was sweeping over a volcanic mountainslope nearly a mile beneath the surface of the ocean when something caught the eye of ...

A deep-sea fish may have figured out a smarter way to glow. New research suggests the bristlemouth Sigmops gracilis may use ...

Some photography competitions celebrate composition, timing, and technical control. The Chromatic Awards, however, place one ...

Approximately 75% of marine organisms are bioluminescent, with specialized light-emitting organs called photophores. They use ...

Living in the Dead Sea would be a very unpleasant experience for most creatures. With salt concentration above 30% and ...

Known as Dalhousiella yabukii, the worm resides inside a glass sea sponge—a simple marine animal that forms a glass-like skeleton—in the cold, dark waters off the coast of Japan. And it’s just one of ...

The fish, who live in pitch-black darkness, likely use their bioluminescent lures to find mates. Males then attach themselves to the females—and never let go. Many anglerfish, like the Diceratias ...