Many otherworldly deep-sea creatures, though, are so beautiful and mysterious that you won't believe they exist. Even in the shallow, many creatures are both eerie and splendid with amazing skills, ...

As it turns out, they were both wildly wrong. The creature lying on the sand was an oarfish: an eel-shaped deep-sea marine creature also known as the “doomsday fish” in Japanese folklore.

The pelican eel (Eurypharynx pelecanoides ... a phenomenon seen in other deep-sea creatures like the giant squid and the Japanese spider crab. It lives from 500 to 7,000 feet (152 to 2,133 ...

RAUSU, Hokkaido--Aside from its slimy feel, a type of conger eel called “kurohamo” doesn’t win any prizes in the looks department. Fishermen rarely found any use for the deep-sea fish when ...

The deep sea, covering approximately 65% of Earth's surface, has long been considered a biological desert. In this extreme ...

“Ogusokumushi,” or the deep-sea giant isopod called Bathynomus doederleinii by its scientific name, is always a favorite among aquarium visitors. Its body is about 10 centimeters ...