"Everyone in the control room let out a loud 'Oooooh!' at the same time. We were all enchanted," a researcher said.

A rare squid has been filmed wrapping its arms around a camera deep below the ocean surface, where conditions are near pitch black ... The deep-sea hooked squid is renowned for having two very ...

Rare footage shows a deep-sea squid wrapping its arms around a camera at a depth of about 1km (0.6 miles), where conditions are near pitch black. The Dana squid has all the tools of a top ocean ...

Using a remote vehicle, scientists first noticed the so-called a mystery mollusk in February 2000 at a depth of 8,576 feet in ...

Like many other deep-sea cephalopods, some species of whip-lash squid can produce bioluminescence ... they might simply be used to illuminate their pitch-black environment. Females are ...

While most sea slugs use a rough tongue to feed on prey attached to the seafloor, B. caudactylus uses a cavernous hood to ...

The ocean depths are home to a phantasmagoria of bizarre creatures, ranging from the footballfish to the "vampire squid from hell ... evidence for deep-sea angling." ...

The question isn’t whether other creatures share our concept of mortality; it’s whether any living being truly grasps what it means to die. The Mystery of Three Hundred Bodies in the Woods The ...

The giant squid is a rare and elusive creature, once thought only to exist in stories of sea monsters called krakens. But in 2004, the Museum was offered a nearly complete specimen caught at a depth ...

Its flexible neck allows it to bend its head back and stick out the lower jaw to reach out and grab fish, squid and crustaceans. Many deep-sea creatures give out blue light called bioluminescence - ...