From worms with squid-like tentacles to fish with teeth on their tongues, here are some of the most alien-looking creatures ...

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In addition to the strange things that have been found in the deep sea, there are some strange creatures that are able to survive the darkness and intense pressure of the deepest parts of the ocean.

The animal kingdom has so many stranger-than-fiction animals. From a glowing green sea slug to a lizard with a toad's head, ...

Creatures, including black scabbardfish and squid, found during a trawl 1,200m below the surface Some of Scotland's strangest looking ... three separate deep sea marine protected areas.

The Mariana snailfish or hadal snailfish might hold the record for the deepest fish in existence. They are relatively small, ...

The Cambrian sea was a very strange and alien place. Evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould described the animals that lived there in his book Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of ...

Another of 2024's mysterious plant discoveries made by researchers at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, was a species of rattan ...

One of the strangest groups of creatures of all is the sea squirts. Their comical title belies the fact that although they are still invertebrates, they actually belong in the same phylum as we do ...