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 ...

A team of oceanographers watching a deep-sea rover’s camera never saw this coming: a young gulper eel performing fluid acrobatics for the lens. The reactions caught on video from the group of ...

A sea hare, a gulper eel, and a colony of what looks like sea pork have all turned up recently on the San Diego coast, keeping local scientists busy. In early October, a beachgoer at Windansea in La ...

Since launching in 2008, the Ocean Exploration Trust's Nautilus research vessel has live-streamed a purple orb, a transparent squid, and a stubby octopus from the bottom of the ocean. The latest ...

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 ...

Alien' ghost' sharks which live in the Midnight Zone of the ocean have been captured on film for the first time. The sharks, and other types of fish, have gone undetected for millions of years after ...

The gulper catfish has an extremely large appetite - as this shocking footage of one devouring another fish as big as its own being shows. The predatory fish, which has been known to readily consume ...

As it drifts through the inky blackness of the "midnight zone" in the deep sea, the pelican eel undulates its narrow, whiplike tail and long, snakelike body. It's hard to imagine its slender form ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. The deep ...

A proposal to regulate international trade of gulper sharks could help to save the species.

A syndicate in Puntland's Bosaso port city operates in defiance of a recent ban on shark fishing. The primary landing site for fishing boats in Bosaso, north-east Somalia, is a beehive of activity ...

A syndicate in Puntland’s port city of Bosaso operates in defiance of a recent ban on shark fishing. The primary landing site for fishing boats in Bosaso, northeast Somalia, is a beehive of activity ...