What started as a quiet night offshore turned into a record-challenging moment for a Florida angler fishing 120 miles off the Alabama coast. Around 4 a.m. on Aug. 1, Taylor Guidry stepped onto the ...

The aquariums said its aerial survey team spotted three True's beaked whales, a species "rarely seen at the surface," while above the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument off the ...

A rare oarfish found at Ocean Beach on Tasmania's west coast. (Photo credit: Sybil Robertson) In two separate incidents this week, rare deep-sea oarfish - nicknamed "doomsday fish" - have washed up on ...

A rare deep-sea fish regarded as a harbinger of doom has washed up on a beach in the Canary Islands. The oarfish was discovered by beachgoers in Lanzarote on 10 February, sparking fears among the ...

Meet the Atlantic wolffish, green humphead parrotfish, and other unusual species with extraordinary adaptations.

The voyage marked Singapore’s first major deep-sea scientific expedition since the 2023 adoption of the United Nations Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) Agreement – otherwise known as ...

SAN DIEGO, Calif. (KABC) -- This is really the stuff of nightmares. A rare, monstrous-looking fish recently washed ashore in San Diego. It's called the Pacific footballfish, and it's one of the larger ...

A striking 11-foot oarfish on display in the new exhibit Oarfish: Recent Discoveries from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Collection at the Birch Aquarium. (Photo Courtesy of the Birch ...

Notable sightings along the way included the discovery of an extensive crinoid meadow at a depth of 9,100 meters (29,855 feet ...

The most striking trait of this fish is the absence of visible eyes. Living in total darkness, the faceless cusk eel has ...

A rare deep-sea oarfish discovered last year at Grandview Beach in Encinitas is now on display at the Birch Aquarium in La Jolla. It’s one of two of the creatures that were once thought of as sea ...

An angler has landed an ultra-rare “prehistoric” fish off the Cornish coast – which is seldom seen by humans. Fishing ...