Barreleye fish are named for their unique, barrel-shaped eyes. These eyes can rotate, allowing the fish to look both upward and straight ahead. Their eyes also have bright green lenses protected ...

Notorious Portuguese man-of-wars are washing up on North Carolina beaches, prompting warnings along the roughly 150-mile stretch from Cape Lookout to the South Carolina state line. Cape Lookout ...

Off the coast of Papua New Guinea, a “dwarf”-like sea creature with spotted eyes swam around a reef. It darted into a nearby coral as a shadowy figure approached, but its hiding spot wasn’t quite ...

As millions of people journey to South Carolina beaches this summer, some will share the water with unwelcome companions. Dubbed sea poisoning, ocean itch and even seabather’s eruption, sea lice can ...

Boaters were left stunned after seeing 100 sea creatures off the coast of California, a whale-watching company said. Boaters spotted 100 ”excited” bottlenose dolphins as they raced alongside ...

Miami Seaquarium may have closed, but the dolphins and other marine animals who've spent years performing for paying ...

Thousands of meters below the ocean's surface lurk some gigantic creatures, much larger than their shallow-water brethren. Scientists have a few hunches for why this happens, but the debate continues.

Some of the world’s most fascinating creatures live underwater. And unlike the more mainstream animals under the sea — seahorses, sharks, and even deep sea anglerfish — one cool member of the aquatic ...

Scientists say sea monster is a new kind of animal. This unidentified specimen belonging within Relicanthidae is a sea creature that was previously thought to be a giant sea anemone (order Actiniaria) ...

What was once a normal pet store now sits abandoned and forgotten – but something inside is still alive. Among the empty tanks and dusty shelves, bizarre sea creatures remain, surviving against all ...

Marine animals living in the cold, dark depths of the ocean are interconnected across the world by a hidden “superhighway”, a groundbreaking new study suggests. The research, published in the journal ...