To survive the deep ocean, sea creatures have all kinds of adaptations that give them alien-like appearances, such as huge eyes and needle-like teeth.
Dive in and meet some of the most stunning deep-sea animals that MBARI encountered in 2025. This year, our team spotted ultra-black fishes, sinuous siphonophores, curious crabs, spectacular sponges, ...
Dive to places uninhabitable by humans and encounter regal whales and colorful reef life. Ocean Animals features the world’s most charismatic animals that inhabit a realm humans can only fleetingly ...
For the first known time, a team of scientists in China filmed a strange, shrimp-like fish walking backward along the seafloor. The fish, Scalicus engyceros, is a species of armored searobin, a group ...
A fish that tries to swallow a sea firefly may suddenly find its own mouth exploding with some of the brightest biological light in the ocean. These tiny crustaceans, formally known as ostracods, use ...
Using a deep-sea submersible vehicle, researchers captured a small animal having a strange snack. Screengrab from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's video Miles below the surface of the ocean, ...