The name mikazuki isn’t random. It is a nod to the local history of the Tohoku region, derived from the Japanese word for ...

The bumphead sunfish (Mola alexandrini) is one of the strangest and most impressive giants in the ocean. With a flattened, ...

Deep within the sea lies another world entirely. It’s a world of complete darkness, where light is absorbed thousands of feet ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - It turns out sleeping isn’t just about resting your eyes, as a new study found that even ancient creatures without eyes — or even brains — need it too. A study published in ...

Eerie yet fascinating footage shows the 10-metre-long sea creature gently pulsing and swirling its way through the dark waters.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The mysterious jellyfish was spotted about 830 feet beneath the waves. ROV pilots filmed this giant phantom jelly, or Stygiomedusa ...

This is the moment deep sea explorers captured an incredibly elusive creature on camera - the giant phantom jellyfish.

Jellyfish seem to sleep for about 8 hours a day, take midday naps and snooze more after a bad night’s sleep – just like us. Sleep is thought to have first evolved in marine creatures like these, and ...

Neither jellyfish nor sea anemones have brains. But these animals sleep in ways strikingly similar to humans, according to a study published today in Nature Communications 1. The findings bolster a ...

1 OKEANOS Center, University of the Azores, Portugal 2 Centre for Molecular and Environmental Biology, University of Minho, Portugal The marine macroplankton and micronekton fauna of the Azores, which ...