The ocean is full of surprises, and scientists are still finding creatures that seem almost unreal. From tiny reef animals to ...

A video taken by a tourist shows the first documented instance of a coyote swimming to Alcatraz, scientists say. It came ...

I n the darkest depths of the ocean, a battle has been unfolding for millions of years: whales versus squids. Both animals ...

Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences described 72 new species last year, from elegant birds to strange sea ...

Consciousness could be a fundamental part of reality, like gravity or matter, according to this controversial theory.

Hallucigenia was such an odd animal that palaeontologists reconstructed it upside-down when they first analysed its fossils - ...

Blue blood may look alien, but it’s one of evolution’s most elegant solutions to life in extreme environments. Here’s how ...

An alien-like Mola mola surprised surfers as it surfaced along the San Diego coastline, ultimately dying and washing ashore. “A rare Mola mola (ocean sunfish) washed up on our shore at Cardiff State ...

The deep sea also harbours some of the most intriguing and alien-like species in existence, yet for several centuries, these creatures have continued .

Cephalopods—the class of animals that comprises octopuses and squids—are ubiquitous throughout the ocean, including in the deep sea. However, researchers still don't know very much about the ...