Two of the paper's three authors, Richard Young and Michael Vecchione, put a full-color version of the photo on the squid's ...

Caught on camera: a rare encounter in the deep sea where a giant squid appears to take on an unidentified creature. This ...

In his publication Sea Fables Explained (1883), he wrote, “… the descriptions by ancient writers of so-called ‘fabulous creatures’ are rather distorted portraits than invented falsehoods, and there is ...

Sea monsters like the Kraken, serpents or the Loch Ness monster may be just in our imagination, but across history, these stories have roots in reality. Today, we still like to exaggerate and tell ...

In what may be the world's first-ever recorded sighting, a black seadevil — anglerfish known for living thousands of feet beneath the ocean's surface where the light no longer touches — was caught on ...

Researchers are not even halfway through analyzing the thousands of samples collected from the Southern Ocean, but they've ...

When photos of a strange worm began circulating on Facebook, people assumed it was another deep-sea hoax. But the creature is real. Meet ...

A video shared on social media in June 2024 claimed to depict a sea serpent monster known as the "leviathan." The clip showed what appeared to be Google Earth or Maps data of an island that, when ...

The historian Procopius described how a creature called Porphyrios terrified sixth-century sailors for 50 years. But what was ...

Paleontology researchers in Europe have identified a new species of ancient marine reptile – often referred to as a "Jurassic sea monster" or "sea dragon" – that existed nearly 183 million years ago.