A snailfish filmed alive at 8,336 meters in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench. A ram’s horn squid caught on video for the first time ...

The deep ocean should be too cold, too dark, and too starved of food to create giants, yet it produces some of the strangest ...

Since its discovery in 1925, only eight adult specimens have been reported, severely limiting scientists' ability to research the enormous sea creatures. NBC Universal, Inc. One hundred years after ...

Humans spend nearly their entire lives on land, but the Earth we call home is really a water world. With 71 percent of the Earth's surface covered by water, this expansive ecosystem has been difficult ...

Credit: Wikimedia Commons Elusive and mysterious, the giant squid grows to an astonishing 43 feet. Its tentacles, lined with powerful suction cups, help it capture prey in the deep ocean. Rarely seen ...

Elusive creatures have previously only been seen on fishing lines and experts know ‘virtually nothing about them’ ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A colossal squid has been caught on camera ...