For more than 500 million years, the oceans have been ruled by an endless succession of giant predators. It began with bizarre creatures like Anomalocaris, one of Earth's first true apex hunters, ...

Great white sharks are classified as "critically endangered" in the Mediterranean Sea, and underwater sightings are ...

The Tasmanian devil is far from being the biggest predator on Earth, but its astonishing bite force places it in a league of ...

A decade after they vanished from the ocean, the discovery of this lost colony of sunflower sea stars offers new hope for ...

Polar bears live in some of the coldest places on Earth, but did you know one country hosts around 16,000 of them? From vast ...

When photographer Jialing Cai plunged into the ocean in the dead of night, she found creatures of the deep had risen up to ...

Staff and visitors to the Houston Zoo are mourning the loss of Jonah, the beloved California sea lion who became one of the ...

The UK’s biggest bird of prey has been compared to a flying barn door. So how can one fitted with a satellite tracker disappear near a hunting estate?

Enigmatic 415 million-year-old fossils belong to a giant scorpion that may have reached lengths of around 3 feet (1 meter), a ...

The supergiant bathynomid is a deep-sea isopod famous for surviving more than five years without food. Despite residing in an ...

The Elysia slug can detach its head from its body and regrow entirely. The Chimera mantis shrimp can spear its prey, at ...

Echinoderms are those strange, sometimes slimy or spiky creatures that live on the ocean floor—think sea cucumbers, sea ...