Weird creatures that inhabit the ocean’s depths fall into a few different categories. There are, for example, those that look like they come from another planet. As well as the adorable, weird little ...

A rarely filmed deep-sea squid was recorded off the southeast coast of the U.S., with observers describing the creature with tentacles stretching up to 20 feet as "ghostly" and "alien-ish." The ...

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Rare footage of a bigfin squid captured by a ROV deployed 11,000 feet deep in the Tonga Trench. Credit: Deep Sea Research ...

As curator of cephalopods at Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Mike Vecchione is no stranger to the occasional inquiry about unknown creatures dwelling in the deep sea. But in 2001, he ...

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