The Mariana Trench is the deepest place on Earth, and we're still in the dark about much of the life that calls it home. Here ...

Although the Vietnamese name for giant isopods is bọ biển, which translates to “sea bugs,” these behemoths ... Their carnivorous diet consists of dead animals that have fallen to the ...

It’s easy to confuse two animals. Believe me, I do it much too often. I’m talking leopard vs. cheetah or emu vs. ostrich. But ...

To feed, it extends two long, adhesive-covered filaments to trap this debris, which is then bundled into mucus-coated “dumplings” and consumed. These deep sea marvels exemplify the animal ...

Spanish explorers tried to erase the Mexica when they first arrived and put this gem on Europe’s conquering to-do list ... sea,” according to historian Robert S. Weddle’s book of the same name.

Animals display surprising ... often called the "old man of the sea" because of its gray, rough skin and large head. They can grow up to 2.4 meters (8 feet) long, and they may look intimidating ...

From a sea monster's ... paleontology has come a long way since the discovery of the first dinosaur in 1824, scientists still have a lot to learn about these ancient animals, and interpretations ...

Many new names sounded as if they’d been cooked up by a medieval monk. HIV-1 would henceforth be known as Lentivirus ...

The name suggestions below were partly inspired by those trips along with some of my own family history; they include a variety of sea-related terms, including everything from nautical slang and ocean ...

Step into the “Animals that Start with S” world! Surprisingly, many creatures bear names beginning with the letter ... on one knows how much they sting! These sea animals can live up to 200 years long ...