The Portuguese man o’ war is one of the ocean’s strangest creatures, and its danger comes from what it really is, not what it looks like. Often mistaken for a jellyfish, it is a living colony that ...

An exploration of strange and fascinating marine life, revealing some of the ocean’s most unusual and little-known creatures.

Long-distance gene control first emerged around 650 to 700 million years ago, significantly earlier than scientists had ...

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We share our planet with some weird animals, from goblin sharks to immortal jellyfish and amphibians that can regrow their ...

The video above takes viewers beneath the waters off Bali, Indonesia, where a truly unusual marine animal glides across the seafloor. At first glance, it looks almost unreal — soft, translucent, and ...

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The ocean is full of surprises, and scientists are still finding creatures that seem almost unreal. From tiny reef animals to bizarre deep-sea species, these discoveries show just how much of the ...

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Here’s a sentence you probably didn’t expect to read today: Thousands of strangers on the internet just collectively named a deep-sea creature that lives on sunken wood at the bottom of the ocean, and ...

To study the marine diversity of the Inglefield Bredning Fjord, northwest Greenland, they set up a video camera with red ...