Jason Fowler told ABC News Australia that the sunfish, discovered in late March at Lowlands Beach, resembled “a giant sort of yellowy-brown blob.” Ocean sunfish, or Mola molas, are the heaviest bony ...

The Maltese Islands have been visited by a monster of the deep… and this one’s as large as they get.   In photos shared on social media yesterday, prominent marine biologist Alan Deidun showed off the ...

The star, Pycnopodia helianthoides, reaches one metre in diameter and has as many as 24 arms. But it disintegrates in a few ...

Paleontologists found a group of four-legged Triassic creatures preserved in the same bone bed—but they don’t know what ...

It probably spent most, if not all, of its life in the water eating… anything unfortunate enough to venture too far into the ...

Two Paleontology and Evolution students from the University of Bristol have undertaken the first ever study which describes ...

The blobfish, described as the world's ugliest animal, has been voted fish of the year in New Zealand. The creature, which grows to about 12 inches (30cm) long, is known affectionately as Mr ...

A magical mermaid story extracted from the new book Welsh Folk Tales of Coast and Sea by Peter Stevenson. The shallow sea in ...

In her survey, Berners reports that it was widely known that in Cumbria some 34 men, ten women and 16 children had been killed by a huge, pike-headed fish, the “dregpike”. Allegedly almost three-times ...

The booking process will be handled by Ticketmaster - the only official ticketing agent for Radio 1’s Big Weekend, however you can only access tickets through the links below. Ticketmaster’s ...

Water-Pokémon have origins across the globe, from various Pokémon based on yokai to being inspired by more western mythology.

(Alex Ingle/Schmidt Ocean Institute) Esquete and her colleagues have documented a surprisingly lush and diverse marine ecosystem that includes corals, sponges, fish, giant sea spiders, octopuses ...