Marine & Aquatic Life

In the eternal darkness of the deep ocean, where sunlight has never penetrated and pressure would crush most surface dwellers in seconds,...

Imagine a creature that looks like a living barrel made of jelly, propels itself by jet propulsion, can clone itself into massive chains,...

Imagine a fish so perfectly camouflaged that experienced divers can stare directly at it and see nothing but rocks. Now imagine that same...

Imagine an animal that starts life as a free-swimming tadpole with a primitive brain, then settles down, attaches to a rock, and promptly...

In the crushing darkness of the deep ocean, where the pressure would instantly implode a human body and the cold would freeze blood...

In the pitch-black depths of the ocean, where the pressure could crush a human in milliseconds and the cold hovers just above freezing,...

The Plot Twist You Never Saw Coming Imagine finding out that the weird, squishy blob stuck to a dock piling is more closely related to...

Imagine a pill bug the size of a football, with compound eyes that gleam like alien technology and an appetite for rotting whale...

Picture this: gardens of flower-like creatures swaying gracefully in ancient ocean currents, their feathery arms reaching skyward like...

Picture the ocean's most dramatic fashion show: a fish glides by wearing what appears to be a haute couture gown made of poisonous...

In the pitch-black depths of the ocean, where the pressure could crush a human in seconds and the cold is bone-numbing, swims a fish that...

Picture this: you're diving in tropical waters when suddenly you spot what appears to be a swimming pancake with legs doing an underwater...

In the warm tropical waters of the Indo-Pacific lurks a creature so improbably dangerous and bizarrely sophisticated that it seems like...

The Rock That Can Kill You Imagine stepping on what looks like an algae-covered rock, only to experience pain so excruciating that...

Forget everything you think you know about sharks. While great whites are out there being oceanic athletes and hammerheads are swimming...

The Pig That Went for a Really Deep Swim Imagine a pig. Now imagine it's translucent, lives 4,000 meters underwater, breathes through its...

The Mollusk That Chose Violence Against Waves Picture this: waves that could flip cars crash against rocks every few seconds, yet a...

The Most Misleading Name in the Ocean First things first: the sea mouse is not a mouse. It's not even remotely mouse-like, unless you...

Buried beneath the sand of beaches worldwide lives an animal so strange that beachcombers who find their empty shells often mistake them...

In the mysterious depths of our oceans, a group of remarkable creatures has been evolving for over 500 million years, developing...