Look no further than the depths of earth’s oceans to discover mind-blowing creatures that look like they come from another world! No need to venture into outer space to witness five of the most exotic ...

Picture this: vast underwater mountains hiding creatures that seem ripped from science fiction, animals that create their own ...

About 5,000 species of crustaceans in the order Isopoda live in Earth’s oceans. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, they all have two pairs of antennae, compound eyes, ...

Barreleye fish are named for their unique, barrel-shaped eyes. These eyes can rotate, allowing the fish to look both upward and straight ahead. Their eyes also have bright green lenses protected ...

In this photo provided by Schmidt Ocean Institute, experiments code-named "Mesh Box Staining Gadgets" are sealed to the seafloor at the Tica Vent, a site on the East Pacific Rise 2,500 meters deep.

One of the coolest pieces of irony about our planet is that the ocean covers most of the surface of the Earth, and yet, the ...

For the first time ever, the genome of a knotty sea spider was sequenced in high resolution. Prashant Sharma / University of Wisconsin Though sea spiders have thrived for millions of years in a ...

A hoodwinker sunfish, or Mola tecta, can weigh as much as 4,400 pounds and can grow up to nine feet long Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

NEW YORK – Scientists for the first time have uncovered an underworld of animal life thriving beneath the seafloor. An expedition to a volcanically active ridge in the Pacific off South America has ...