The ocean covers more than 70 percent of Earth’s surface, yet we’ve explored less of it than we have the surface of the moon.

Earth is full of bizarre creatures, with more being discovered each year. As documented in the scientific journal Species ...

The gulper eel ( Saccopharynx lavenbergi), also called a pelican eel, is roughly a meter of tail and mouth. This unusual fish, the only species in the genus Eurypharynx, slinks through the water as ...

Several bizarre sea creatures made news in 2015 but none is more fascinating than the pocket shark that looks like a tiny whale. It’s the rarest of sharks. Several bizarre sea creatures made news in ...

Sea creatures have adapted to help them thrive in extreme environments. Unusual features allow them to live thousands of feet below the surface. Underwater robots give researchers a glimpse at some of ...

A few tiny molecular tweaks may explain why naked mole-rats live nearly ten times longer than similar species. Researchers ...

They were so thick on the beaches of South Padre Island that one person described them as stepping stones. Squishy stepping ...

(CNN) — A newly identified parasitic wasp that buzzed and flew among dinosaurs 99 million years ago evolved a bizarre mechanism to snare other creatures and force them to unwittingly shelter its young ...

Q. I enjoy learning about bizarre animals like the terrestrial one you recently wrote about called a hammerhead worm. With all the strange animals found on land, the oceans must be full of even more ...