Fossils of an ancient sea creature are the oldest evidence of right-handedness

Research on Spriggina floundersi fossils found the wormlike creatures favored their right sides, a behavioral preference in ...
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Ancient 60-foot sea creature reshapes ocean history

Discover the incredible fossil of a 60-foot, kraken-like creature that challenges our view of ancient oceans. This ...

This killer shark movie still has one of cinema's greatest fake-outs

A late-'90s sci-fi horror classic still delivers killer sharks, memorable performances, and one of the genre's greatest ...
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Sailors called it a sea serpent and ran from it for 2,000 years, and the ribbon-bodied silver giant they were really seeing lives in a twilight world almost no camera has ev…

For 2,000 years sailors fled it as a sea monster. The giant oarfish is real, it's 36 feet long, and scientists barely know it ...

Off Virginia Beach’s coast, an extraordinary encounter

VIRGINIA BEACH — Arielle Workman has been on deep sea fishing tours before and thought she generally knew what to expect. But ...

Please give Neil the Seal some space

Residents of the Southern Tasmania city Hobart can probably tell you what it’s like, because for the past half-decade its ...

Virginia’s Atlantic coast should be protected, not turned into a sacrifice zone

Virginia’s offshore waters are rich with marine life. They provide important habitat for many animals protected under the ...
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First-Ever Footage of Haunting Barreleye Fish Captured Deep Beneath The Atlantic

A barreleye fish of the species Winteria telescopa. (Schmidt Ocean Institute/YouTube) Deep beneath the oceans' crashing waves ...

The twilight zone: Every night trillions of tiny creatures rise from the ocean depths

In the ocean's twilight zone, where the reach of the Sun fades to nothing, an epic migration begins every time night falls.

Scientists film alien-like spookfish in the wild for the first time ever

These videos feature a spookfish so alien that it seems like a sci-fi concoction, as well as thermal vents spewing life-forming materials into the depths of the Atlantic ...
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China is sinking a research base 6,500 feet into the South China Sea, as complex as 3 space station modules, and the 600 creatures already living in the dark down there are the ...

Picture the International Space Station, then imagine three of them bolted together and dropped straight down into the dark. Now imagine them resting not in orbit, but on an ocean floor where the ...