The open ocean has always made room for imagination. For centuries, sailors swore they saw monsters bigger than ships, smarter than people, and hungry enough to pull a crew straight off the deck. No ...

Far below the ocean’s surface, where sunlight disappears and pressure reaches crushing levels, some of the planet’s strangest ...

The ocean is full of some incredibly odd creatures. It feels like the further you go down, the stranger and more alien-like they become. With so many interesting creatures, it makes you wonder, what ...

Photojournalist Brian Skerry has taken photos for National Geographic for the past 14 years and counting. His photographs are the focus of a new exhibit scheduled for early next year at the ...

Q. I enjoy learning about bizarre animals like the terrestrial one you recently wrote about called a hammerhead worm. With all the strange animals found on land, the oceans must be full of even more ...

Clay weighs down carbon and other materials, helping it sink deeper into the ocean. Video courtesy of Dartmouth College. In 2016, Dartmouth professor Mukul Sharma was thinking that bringing down ...

There was an era of horror and thriller cinema where animals like alligators and sharks attacking and killing humans had ...

Sea creatures have adapted to help them thrive in extreme environments. Unusual features allow them to live thousands of feet below the surface. Underwater robots give researchers a glimpse at some of ...