Experts have been attempting to determine what gave the unusual ocean-dwelling giant its distinct coloration.
Park staff at Cape Lookout National Seashore posted up images of the organisms to ask if anyone could help identify them.
This bizarre ocean-dwelling fish was found in the depths of the North Pacific by a group of NOAA scientists.
The space agency is looking into the idea of sending robots to swim beneath the icy crusts of Europa and Enceladus.
Researchers aboard the research vessel Nautilus have discovered something unusual at the bottom of the ocean.
Researchers have taken a fresh look at how the island's inhabitants drank water directly out of the ocean.
A bizarre deep-sea species of brittle star is the sole survivor of 180 million years of time and evolution.
Footage captured during an oil and gas expedition shows what looks like the remains of a truly enormous creature.
For the first time, scientists have filmed a giant squid feeding in its natural habitat in the depths of the ocean.
Despite its cold, dry and barren exterior, Mars may be hiding large quantities of water beneath its surface.
Scientists believe that a slowdown in ocean currents could bring about colder and more extreme weather.
Multiple witnesses last week reported seeing a bright blue object fall from the sky into the ocean.
A chance fossil discovery in Morocco has indicated that some dinosaurs swam vast distances across the sea.
Researchers exploring the ocean off Australia have captured the ram's horn squid on film for the first time.
A woman who had been missing for two years has been found floating in the ocean and very much alive.
Scientists have determined that Ceres, like Europa and Enceladus, is home to an ocean of liquid water.
Scientists have photographed a very peculiar life form in a region referred to as the 'Forest of the Weird'.
Scientists have discovered a number of exotic new life forms in the deepest depths of the Pacific Ocean.
Scientists now believe that Pluto may have had a 'hot start' and has always had a subsurface ocean.
An oceanic whitetip shark was recently found with scarring consistent with a fight with a giant cephalopod.