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FILE: Hordes of Velella velella, or by-the-wind sailors, wash up on Northern California beaches on March 27, 2024, in Marin ...

"I find this so interesting. I have not heard or seen this beautiful creature before." ...

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A deep-sea mollusk, Catillopecten margaritatus, lost its sight and adapted to bacteria and chemicals to survive in extreme ...

A giant octopus, likened to a mythical creature said to be capable of dragging ships to their doom, roamed the seas during ...

A YouTuber recorded a giant ray and a shark species never before seen in the wild at the depths of the Indian Ocean below ...

"He's so much larger than anything you can imagine," says the harbormaster at San Francisco's Pier 39, where a 2,000-pound ...

The ocean covers more than 70% of our planet’s surface, yet we’ve explored less than 5% of it. Below the sunlit waves lies an alien world of crushing pressure, eternal darkness, and bone-chilling cold ...

The warty comb jelly, Mnemiopsis leidyi, a fascinatingly weird creature that can regenerate parts of its body, reproduce from ...