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

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

It looked like something plucked from a fairy tale — a fleshy, violet disc sitting in the sand along the Southern California ...

And this week, a truly rare sea creature was found off the coast of Cape Cod: the rare split-colored lobster. Though a ...

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

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While capturing the serene beauty of a sunrise, a photographer made a startling discovery, a 300-pound creature trapped ...

The ocean contains many organisms whose form defies the expectations we might have for life, but none may be more bizarre ...

Peer into the water at the tide pools along the Sonoma Coast, and you’ll see what appears to be an alien invasion of bright ...

Scientists uncover a giant “Kraken-like” octopus that ruled Cretaceous seas, reaching 61 feet and competing with sharks and ...

One fascinating creature spends its winters beneath four feet of Antarctic sea ice, diving to nearly 2,000 feet in water cold ...