When we think about animals, we tend to think of furry four-legged mammals. But 95% of all animal species are invertebrates – ...

When we think about animals, we tend to think of furry four-legged mammals. But 95% of all animal species are invertebrates - bees, butterflies ...

Scientists captured the first documented video of cruise ship anchor damage in Antarctica, potentially to one of the oldest living creatures.

The first new species, Peltospira gargantua, was found on a black smoker chimney in the Hydra field at a depth of about ...

Some of the most colorful sea animals that live beneath the waves are bright, beautiful ... and deadly A rainbow underwater ...

Dive into the realm of the sea cucumber, an unassuming creature that helped shape Australia’s pre-European culture.

Beneath the rough/choppy/tumultuous waves of the Bay of Bengal, a kaleidoscope of marine life thrives just 8-12 km off Chennai’s Neelankarai coast. In this colu ...

A new study, led by Dr Alison Irwin during her PhD research at the Natural History Museum, sheds light on how these remarkable eyes support the snails’ unique escape strategies. “Large ... Abela and ...

It turned out to be a new species of sea slug that's perfectly adapted to the ... It has a hood like a jellyfish and a "foot" like a snail, and it hunts prey like some anemones.

The sea slug’s body is made up of a large gelatinous hood and paddle-like tail. It can glow with bioluminescence. It lives at an extreme depth of 1,000 to 4,000 meters, or 3,300 to 13,100 feet ...

And it has a foot like a snail ... needs to evade predators, the sea slug relies on its transparent body to hide in plain sight, although rapidly closing its large hood can also help Bathydevius ...