The oceanic whitetip shark haunts the open oceans as one of the most notorious predators, often first to shipwrecks like the USS Indianapolis, where it earned the grim nickname "sea dogs" from sailors ...

Meet the stargazer fish that looks like it crawled out of a horror movie but is completely real! The stargazer fish is one of ...

Sawfish — with their long, toothed snouts that resemble saw blades — are being caught as bycatch in Australia’s largest tropical prawn fishery. In the warm, shallow azure waters off northern Australia ...

A jaw tip worn down by nearly a tenth does not sound like much until you picture what it means. Chipping, cracking, scratches and polish do not appear on their own. Something was hitting back. That is ...

Fish across Britain's seas face ever-smaller meals as warmer seas and commercial fishing squeeze ocean food webs, new research suggests. Research by the University of Essex and the UK Government's ...

The ocean is full of unusual animals, but few catch people off guard quite like the mola mola. It’s a massive, slow-moving disk of a fish with fins that seem placed almost at random, and it drifts ...

The deep sea is home to many different animals, some of which you may have never heard of before. One example is the ...