The blobfish, a deep-sea creature, has been described as the world ... Despite its high profile as the longtime official mascot of the Ugly Animal Preservation Society, the blobfish had been ...

It’s hard to study animals at this depth in the cold, since they spend a lot of time in a habitat “on the continental shelf to the deep sea,” says Matthew Davis, a professor of biological ...

Therefore sea pigs - and other deep-sea creatures - can look very different on the surface than they do in their natural habitat. The sea pig, for example, is typically more uniform when crawling ...

Images of a baby colossal squid this week reminds us that the deep sea is an almost inexhaustible source of awe.