bizarre creatures

A pelagic sea cucumber spotted by the crew of the Okeanos Explorer looks like a flower floating in water.

Researchers in Canada recently discovered a bizarre, roughly 30-armed prehistoric life form that may have been an early player in arthropods’ rise to world domination.

There’s a unique species of aquatic animal that appears eyeless and is believed to live in one specific area in the world. It is the Texas blind salamander, a translucent creature of about three to five inches in length, whose existence was first recorded in the 1890s.

A red jelly was recently spotted ‘dancing through the water column’ during a NOAA deepwater mission near Wake Island.

Remember the goblin shark? That’s old news compared to these unusual finds.

An adorable stubby squid was recently spotted by the E/V Nautilus crew off the shore of California.

NOAA researchers with the Okeanos Explorer expedition recently captured a video of a glowing shrimp with some crazy antennae.

Here are 10 of the strangest deep sea creatures recently spotted by ocean explorers.

The oceans are home to many fascinating and dazzling creatures, and recently NOAA’s Okeanos Explorer team captured a mesmerizing video of one of them.

A sea cucumber recently caught on camera by the NOAA crew during the Okeanos Explorer mission dazzles and mesmerizes.

The NOAA’s Okeanos Explorer mission has encountered quite a few life forms during the 2016 Hohonu Moana expedition.