A team of students at Tohoku University in northeastern Japan discovered a new species purely by happenstance.

The St. George’s Cross medusa is about four inches wide, three inches long, and has about 240 tentacles. The St. George’s Cross medusa is considered fairly large for a jellyfish, at about four inches ...

From a research vessel on the surface, scientists piloted a remote-controlled submarine around a volcanic crater off the coast of Japan. Something disrupted the blue expanse and caught their attention ...

It is estimated that there are between 700,000 and one million creatures living in the ocean. To date, approximately 242,500 of those marine animals have been discovered. This means that, in the ...

The Portuguese man-of-war, or Physalia, is a jelly-like creature that uses a special gas-filled balloon to float on the sea surface. Physalia inhabits the area where the ocean meets the atmosphere, in ...

In a port on the east coast of Japan, a new translucent species was discovered. Lucius Hunter via Unsplash As massive ships arrive in the Onahama Port on the eastern coast of Japan, their giant ...