A newly discovered deep-sea creature has become an unlikely Internet star. After appearing in a popular YouTube video, a rare ...

Beds of Bathymodiolus mussels provide important habitat for other deep-sea critters, including sea stars, scaleworms and limpets. NOAA Ocean Exploration. The deep sea is the large ...

Most marine animals form their shells from calcium carbonate, which is a tough mineral also found in limestone. Some sponges and microorganisms use another compound silica. There is also a group of ...

Around the deep-sea vents off the southern coast of Japan, a small, “glass”-like creature was discovered. Getty Images/iStockphoto Off the coast of Japan, thousands of feet below the surface, the ...

SANIBEL, Fla. (WFLA) — Southwest Florida beachgoers have noticed an unusual sea creature swimming by to their boats and washing up from the Gulf of Mexico. “It looks like a cross between a jellyfish ...

NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WBTW) — Along the shores of the Grand Strand, beachgoers have encountered strange, tiny sea creatures that are sending some of them limping off the sand. Sea butterflies, ...