Yet for all the new data, questions abound. What triggers these bacteria to glow en masse? Why do milky seas mostly occur in specific regions?

A one-foot-long young squid was spotted swimming in the waters around the South Sandwich Islands. The footage is ...

The first verified sighting of a colossal squid alive in its habitat shows that it's not nearly as ugly as the one in Te Papa ...

A colossal squid was filmed for the first time in its natural habitat near the South Sandwich Islands during a recent ...

Scientists on an icebreaker ship have captured a number of weird and wacky animals from Antarctica's ocean floor, including a ...

Historical accounts of vast ocean waters glowing in the dark go back hundreds of years, and researchers are still trying to ...

Hordes of bright blue, jellyfish-like sea creatures are washing up on beaches across California. As of Monday, thousands of the critters — called velella velella or by-the-wind sailors — have been ...

For over 400 years, sailors have reported a mysterious phenomenon in which the ocean appears to glow as far as the eye can ...

Four kilometres below the surface of the Tasman Sea is a strange world inhabited by even stranger creatures. In its autumn ...