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." ...

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 ...

"Yesterday we found a sea creature we've never see or heard of before! This beautiful purple animal is called a sea pansy." ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, April 23 (Reuters) - The Kraken is a huge tentacled sea monster from Norse folklore that drags ships and sailors down into the deep. During the age of dinosaurs, new ...

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

A study describes two species with powerful beaks, and possibly intelligent, that hunted in the Cretaceous seas ...

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

With the future of sicklefin devil rays hanging in the balance, crucial research is building knowledge about these graceful ...

This enigmatic orb has undergone extensive examination and DNA testing, enabling scientists to reveal its true origins ...