The deep-sea octopus is "rarely seen," per the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, which has only seen it four times in four decades Researchers collected detailed observations about the octopus ...

Researchers collected detailed observations about the seldom-spotted sea critter during the rare encounter on Nov. 6 Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

Like a scene out of a Jules Verne novel, scientists from Schmidt Ocean Institute recently encountered a giant phantom jelly ...

A lot of weird-looking life-forms lurk in the deep sea, and this year we got some spectacularly close looks at several of them, including a goofy Doctor Who–esque octopus, alienlike Antarctic dwellers ...

Hidden in the woods, a trail camera captured a rare and unexpected glimpse of wild animals in their natural habitat. A brief but fascinating moment from the wilderness. China issues new Greenland ...

At the bottom of the world’s trenches, there’s a fish that shouldn’t exist. Here’s how it earned the title of the deepest-living fish on Earth. If you were to drop a camera into one of Earth’s ...

Conservationists have branded 2025 the “year of the octopus” after the eight-legged creatures were spotted in British waters in the highest numbers since the 1950s. The charity said it had been left ...

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When Ted Judah goes scuba diving off the coast in Monterey Bay, he normally swims at the surface to the area above the dive site and then descends. But on the morning of Dec. 30, the water was ...

SO YOU GET TO YOUR DESTINATION ON TIME. AN ENDANGERED WHALE HAS BEEN SPOTTED OFF THE COAST OF MERRITT ISLAND, AND NOW MARINE SCIENTISTS WANT TO WARN BOATERS TO KEEP A CLOSE EYE. THE NORTH ATLANTIC ...