Despite their eerie name and otherworldly appearance, vampire squids aren't the blood-sucking monsters they sound like. Dive ...

Vampire Squid. Image by Carl Chun, Public domain ... Photo by arhnue, via Unsplash Perhaps the most iconic deep-sea creature, the female anglerfish employs one of nature’s most innovative hunting ...

Vampire Squid. Image by Carl Chun, Public domain ... Ocean Sea Waters Cliffs. Image via Depositphotos. The deep-sea creatures off the coast of Oregon are as enigmatic as the ocean itself. They ...

Most of our deep-sea exploration equipment is large, noisy and uses bright lights if we are trying to film animals. But the colossal squid can detect and avoid diving sperm whales, which probably ...

and colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni), the largest cephalopods (class of marine animals including octopii and cuttlefish), and possibly the largest invertebrates in the world. Despite their ...

These widespread deep-sea fish occupy the cold waters of the North and South Atlantic Ocean, as well as the Southern Ocean that borders Antarctic waters, and can be found at depths from 1,312 to ...

The ability to study this creature in motion adds a vital layer of understanding to life in one of the planet’s least explored regions. It also highlights the power of deep-sea imaging technologies in ...

The otherworldly animal in this video is a Magnapinna atlantica, a bigfin squid rarely seen, let alone captured on camera. Its unmistakable tentacles and transparent mantle mark it as a deep-sea ...

Shocking new footage shows a pair of bloodsucking parasites latched onto the head of a deep-sea rattail fish. In the video, which the Schmidt Ocean Institute shared in a Facebook post, two ...

Most of our deep-sea exploration equipment is large, noisy and uses bright lights if we are trying to film animals. But the colossal squid can detect and avoid diving sperm whales, which probably ...

A colossal squid has been caught on camera for the first time in the deep sea by an international team of researchers steering a remotely operated submersible. The sighting was announced Tuesday ...