Despite their flower-inspired name, sea pansies are not plants at all. Purple sea pansies are colonial marine animals in the ...

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

New analyses of fossilized jaws reveal that massive, kraken-like octopuses once hunted alongside other marine predators.

Pet O’Connell rounds up a selection of the latest children’s books, including tales of a teen girl who can shape shift when ...

It looked like something plucked from a fairy tale — a fleshy, violet disc sitting in the sand along the Southern California shoreline. One beachgoer thought she had stumbled upon some kind of purple ...

Some octopuses that lived over 72 million years ago were as long as whales. These huge predators may have been the largest ...

On the morning of December 22nd, 1938, a young museum curator in East London, South Africa, found something on the deck of a ...

For 25 years, a hand-sized sea creature embedded in Illinois rock held the title of the world’s oldest octopus. Now, thanks ...

A perplexing deep-sea enigma that captivated the public and fuelled wild theories about extraterrestrial origins has finally ...

It has hit pause on the demonisation of fossil fuel because running out of diesel, jet fuel and petrol would lead to economic ...

An unusual "golden orb" discovered within the depths of the Gulf of Alaska has finally been identified, and it’s not what ...

The strange, shiny discovery, retrieved from the ocean near Alaska in 2023, turned out to be part of an anemone, scientists said.