"To our knowledge, this species has never been observed in the wild." Researchers celebrate after capturing video of shark ...

The footage was taken during a survey of Timor-Leste’s deep sea environment, a South-East Asian nation that takes up half the island of Timor. This discovery came as researchers used ‘low cost deep ...

After exploring the depths for anything unusual, they came across something that took them by surprise, and to their knowledge, has yet to be observed in its natural habitat. The animal that the team ...

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This shark gets its name from an unusual behavior it displays when threatened by a predator. When threatened, the swell shark swallows vast amounts of seawater, which causes its belly to swell and ...

FILE IMAGE: Swell sharks collected during Philippine biodiversity expedition (Stephanie Stone, California Academy of Sciences via Eurekalert) Now, for the first time, deep-sea cameras have ...

Parthogenesis is nothing new in the animal kingdom: growth of embryos without fertilization has been described in every vertebrate class besides mammals, including in a handful of shark species. But ...

The pufferfish lives quite happily without a working version of the organ. Ferreira was able to get live sargassum fish and swell sharks into the lab relatively easily. But when the pandemic hit a ...