This marks the first time the mysterious creature has been seen alive in the northeastern Pacific Ocean. It was spotted last ...

A bizarre belemnite fossil from Wyoming has been identified as a new species, revealing the thickest known member of this ...

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute scientists studying an extinct underwater volcano off the California coast were ...

Thanks to having the “chunkiest squid butt” ever seen on an ancient cephalopod, paleontologists have discovered a 160-million-year-old octopus cousin. The newly identified fossils are described by an ...

Learn how two chunky fossils found in Wyoming revealed a new species of squid-like animal that lived 160 million years ago.

A "peculiar" new species of Jurassic squid-like animal has been unearthed in Wyoming, U.S., following the discovery of two ...

Its barrel-shaped rostrum is around 10 centimeters (3.9 inches) long and 6 centimeters (2.4 inches) across at its widest, ...

In the movie Whalefall, a sperm whale accidentally swallows a scuba diver. It’s technically possible, but unlikely to play ...

In February 2025, researchers shared footage of nearly 30 New Zealand longfin eel ahead of their 1,000-mile migration to ...

MBARI scientists captured stunning footage of a bigfin squid 3,277 meters down off Central California, revealing a rarely ...

Somewhere in the frigid, sunless waters surrounding Antarctica, a creature drifts with eyes larger than any other animal on ...

In the cold, dark water surrounding Antarctica lives an animal whose eyes alone can measure more than a foot across. The ...