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 ...

Tyrannosaurus rex ancestors and their plant-eating dinosaur prey would have congregated to drink water from a lagoon in 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 specimens were the bycatch of a fishing vessel in the South China Sea, which researchers later bought to study.

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 ...

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

When the crew aboard an ocean science expedition learned that an iceberg the size of Chicago had broken off from an Antarctic ice shelf, they knew they had to stop what they were doing immediately ...