Deep-diving fish have a problem: The only light that penetrates their watery environment is blue and green hardly enough of a palette for flashy color patterns. Now, a new study reveals these fishes' ...

The eyes of little-understood fish that lurks in the barely-lit deep sea have evolved to see in color, scientists believe. The work, published in the journal Science, calls into question past studies ...

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When we think of beautiful places or animals, our minds usually go to mountains, forests, birds, or maybe even pets. But there’s an entire world under the sea that most of us never really get to ...

The green turtle is a large, weighty sea turtle with a wide, smooth carapace, or shell. It inhabits tropical and subtropical coastal waters around the world and has been observed clambering onto land ...

Reality is stranger than fiction, and the bizarre life forms lurking in the ocean prove it by putting fantasy monsters to shame. Think stingrays look strange? You’ve clearly never seen a stargazer ...