Discoveries
Rare footage shows how giant squid stalk their prey in the briny depths
Using an innovative platform equipped with a camera, marine researchers were able to capture unique footage of large squid on the hunt.
8 months ago
Deep Ocean
This super rare squid is a deep-sea mystery. We recently spotted not 1, but 5, in the Great Australian Bight
This rather elongated creature has only been spotted a handful of times in the wild.
one year ago
Deep Ocean
Researchers find giant squid and several glow-in-the-dark sharks off the coast of New Zealand
It took six members of the crew to lift the squid.
one year ago
Deep Ocean
Watch: Researchers stumble across a whale carcass teeming with marine scavengers
“Oh, here we go, baby!”
2 years ago
Deep Ocean
This odd-looking, see-through squid has the best hairdo (video)
To the fella over there with the hella good hair ...
2 years ago
Deep Ocean
Living Fossil: Incredibly rare coelacanth captured on camera off the South African coast
A living fossil just showed up in South Africa.
2 years ago
Deep Ocean
First-ever footage of mating anglerfish is strangely mesmerising
A new video filmed near Portugal’s Azores islands gives us some remarkable insights into the lives of deep-sea anglerfish.
3 years ago
Deep Ocean
These deep-sea skates use hydrothermal vents as egg incubators
An undersea vent spewing iron sulphide and superheated water is no place for your unhatched progeny – unless you're a deep-sea skate.
3 years ago
Deep Ocean
The deepest-dwelling fish in the sea is small, pink and delicate
As a group, hadal snailfish seem to have found an unlikely haven in a place named for the proverbial hell...
3 years ago
Sharks
Get the facts about that strange frilled shark caught in Portugal
This strange species belongs among the world's more primitive sharks.
4 years ago
Sharks
Watch: Sixgill sharks feed on a sperm-whale carcass in the Atlantic depths
During the filming of Blue Planet II, a BBC camera crew encountered a group of sixgill sharks feasting on a decaying whale carcass in the...
4 years ago
Deep Ocean
Halloween: The deep-sea edition
Six spooky deep-sea finds for your All Hallow's Eve!
4 years ago
Deep Ocean
Here's looking through you, squid
A googly-eyed cockatoo squid puts on a translucent show in the waters off Washington state.
4 years ago
Deep Ocean
Watch: Fish sets new deep-diving record in the Mariana Trench
The depth-defying fish was clocked at 8,178 metres (over five miles!) beneath the surface!
4 years ago
Deep Ocean
'Faceless' fish hauled up from Australia's uncharted eastern abyss
Scientists are working to ID this crazy creature, which was found in Australia's eastern abyss: a dark, mostly uncharted habitat 4,000 metres below...
4 years ago
