Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences described 72 new species last year, from elegant birds to strange sea slugs.

It’s evident that summer is around the corner, as thousands of tiny sea creatures reminiscent of crispy potato chips have reappeared across the California coastline. The jellyfishlike creatures, ...

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People aren’t the only ones flooding the beaches along the coast of Northern California this month. In recent weeks, seemingly alien creatures have been found washed up in Monterey Bay, according to ...

An exploration of strange and fascinating marine life, revealing some of the ocean’s most unusual and little-known creatures.

Sea creatures have adapted to help them thrive in extreme environments. Unusual features allow them to live thousands of feet below the surface. Underwater robots give researchers a glimpse at some of ...

The Gulf of Mexico is home to many species, and sometimes strange creatures and sharks wash ashore due to high tides or weather. Whether it was an eyeball-looking thing or shape-shifting blobs, MySA ...

Researchers inside a deep-sea vehicle collected sea cucumbers from the seafloor, then discovered two new species. Jong Marshes via Unsplash Off the western coast of Australia, the Wallaby-Zenith ...

These gelatinous and somewhat translucent organisms, called pyrosomes, have been seen congregating, sometimes by the thousands, close to shore from Northern California up to southeast Alaska—clogging ...

Scientists have filmed odd communities of life flourishing deeper in the ocean than ever before. The chemosynthesis-based life-forms get their energy from chemical reactions, powered by gases seeping ...