So, blobfish don’t really look like melting ice cream in their natural environment. Underwater, they’re shaped like tadpoles: big on the front end, tapering down to their tail.

small anchor-shaped animals that lived on the seafloor about 550 million years ago, resemble that of current marine ...

The ornately colored sea anemone (uh-NEM-uh-nee) is named after the equally flashy terrestrial anemone flower. A close relative of coral and jellyfish, anemones are stinging polyps that spend most ...

A team of biologists at Queen Mary University of London has discovered that a neurohormone controlling appetite in humans has ...

The Collection includes extensive holdings from deep-sea environments ... SIO-BIC staff and collaborators discover invertebrate species that are entirely new to science. The scientist who first ...

A seastar that specializes in living on pieces of wood that have fallen into the ocean is among the top 10 new marine species ...