Reviewing those rare encounters, marine scientist Mark C. Benfield at Louisiana State University (LSU) connected scattered sightings and documented the fish alive in its natural depth range. Footage ...

“As they got closer, they realized the creatures struggling in the shallow water were oarfish, a rare deep-sea species that ...

“A beach day in Cabo took an unexpected turn when two sisters spotted something strange flashing in the distance." ...

Meet the “ghost fish,” a phantom of the abyss. Here’s how we found the first ever proof of its existence just a few years ago. The deep sea is a part of the world that very few humans get the chance ...

For decades in the 19th and even early 20th centuries, sea serpent sightings were commonplace. Most famously, the crew of HMS Daedalus supposedly watched one for more than 20 minutes in 1848. Not long ...

Here's a gorgeous sea serpent illustration from 1753. This drawing is said to be from a witness sketch, and was originally featured in Pontoppidan's Natural History of Norway in 1753. If I was alive ...