Quick Take Picking up a live electric wire and swinging it around sounds like a terrible idea. For the blanket octopus, it is a daily survival strategy. As if eight arms were not enough, this species ...

Thousands of strangers on the internet just collectively named a deep-sea creature that lives on sunken wood at the bottom of ...

A newly described blue jellyfish in Japanese waters has stunned researchers with an otherworldly glow that looks less like a ...

The animal kingdom contains a vast array of animals capability of remarkable regenerative abilities, but known are quite as adept at this healing task than sea-swelling Cnidarians, such as hydra, ...

With its vivid blue float and glowing, radiating tentacles, the blue button jelly looks more like a creature from science fiction than a living organism. Found drifting on the surfaces of warm oceans, ...

One major division of the kingdom Animalia is Cnidarians (animals built around a central point) and bilaterians (animals with bilateral symmetry), which includes us humans. A study found that the sea ...

Marine biologists have just discovered the largest black coral ever recorded in Aotearoa New Zealand’s seas, while exploring the deep waters of Fiordland. Measuring more than 13 feet tall and nearly ...