A giant deep-sea crab has been caught in a fisherman's nets off the Isles of Scilly. The one meter box crab, which has been named Spud, has a missing claw and is being cared for at Newquay's Blue ...

and this discovery joins a number of remarkable finds. The pale orange Mazu's Porter Crab is another example of the diversity and mystery of the deep sea.

Many otherworldly deep-sea creatures, though, are so beautiful and mysterious that you won't believe they exist. Even in the ...

Beneath the ocean’s surface lies a world of perpetual darkness, home to some of Earth’s most bizarre and fascinating ...

The operation included collecting samples of deep-sea coral species for analysis. "This is the cutest, spikiest, tiniest crab in the world!" the NOAA posted on social media. Researchers believe ...

An attempt to sell catch quotas for a lot of deep-sea crabs in the Russian Far East has been cancelled for the third time ...

Male crabs of a species named after actor David Hasselhoff grow bigger claws than females so they can fight each other for a mate, according to a new study. Scientists from the universities of ...

The Japanese spider crab is happy to welcome you to 300 meters ... Look, here comes a blobfish! This thrilling deep-sea fish was voted the world's ugliest animal by the Ugly Animal Preservation ...

Each year, thousands of deep-sea Australian majid spider crabs set off to walk over the seabed to shallow waters off South Australia. In their drive to migrate, they climb over each other, sometimes ...