The deep sea is filled with all manner of weird and wonderful creatures. Among them is a bizarre eel species with a giant mouth that has a remarkable resemblance to a pelican's beak. Dubbed the ...

The slender "gulper eel" can unhinge its jaw and expand its throat, enabling it to eat squid-sized prey in a single gulp. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

A team of research scientists has spent nearly four months aboard the Exploration Vessel Nautilus, searching the Pacific Ocean for everything from shipwrecks to meteorites. But even these seasoned ...

Anybody who’s ever seen a Blue Planet documentary, or pretty much any other nature show narrated by Sir David Attenborough, knows that the depths of the ocean are jam-packed with nightmarish creatures ...

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Marine Vertebrate Collection Manager Ben Frable shared this photo of a young Gulper eel, Saccopharynx lavenbergi, that was brought up off the coast of San Diego from about 500 to 700 meters (550 to ...