From bone-eating snot-flowers to snowboarding scale worms, when a whale dies it becomes a colossal island of nutrients – ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What are these strange creatures washing up on Texas beaches, and why are they dying? Here's what the experts have to say.

The world is full of strange creatures, and researchers discover new animal species every year. The oddities of fauna tend to become ever so much stranger when we leave the dry land and turn our gaze ...

In July and August scientists onboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor (too) spotted the oddities through the eyes of an underwater robot as they explored the Mar del Plata Canyon.

A strange sea creature washed ashore at Wollongong on Friday. Do you know what it is? Source: Andrew Murray Move over, sharks — another startling kind of sea creature has been spotted at a popular ...

The discovery of a strange deep-sea mollusc sparked a global naming effort online, with researchers finally choosing a species name meaning "of the people”. Scientists first discovered the deep-sea ...

The anemone is part of a new species, genus and family, according to the study. Photo by Yanghong Yu via Unsplash A “strange” creature recorded in the deep waters off the coast of Japan represents an ...

The knotty sea spider, Pycnogonum litorale, is not actually a spider, but it does represent a significant early branch in the genetic family tree that includes spiders, as well as scorpions, ticks and ...

Portuguese man-of-war are washing up on North Carolina beaches, forcing officials to issue a warning to beachgoers along a 150-mile stretch of sand from Cape Lookout to the South Carolina state line.

Texas is simply crawling with curious critters, and according to a respected research institute, "thousands and thousands" of creepy creatures are showing up on the Gulf Coast because of a "mass die ...