The giant siphonophore (Praya dubia), for example, is a bioluminescent creature that turns bright blue when it bumps against other objects and animals. It lives between 2,300 and 3,300 feet (700 ...

7. Giant isopod (Bathynomus giganteus) You may have never seen a giant isopod, but you have probably seen a roly-poly, which will give you a good idea of what the ocean creature looks like.

By using ROVs that can reach deep enough to find giant jellyfish and other deep-sea creatures swimming in their habitats, scientists are able to gain a much broader understanding of the animals.

Giant squid are somewhat legendary creatures of the sea and until 2004 had never been photographed or filmed alive in their natural habitats.

We have never seen such a huge one,” said Tatiana Lyu, the lady angler who bagged the mammoth mollusk last month.

At a fishing port in Taiwan, researchers bought four giant crustaceans hauled in as bycatch by a trawling vessel in the South China Sea. The deep-sea dwellers, resembling supersized woodlice, were ...

It was larger than a human, but it wasn't a giant squid. Photobomb In October 2020, a remotely-controlled deep sea vessel got surprised by a sizeable sea creature while exploring a shipwreck in ...

Indeed, the deep-sea denizen’s spiral-tacular shape and luminescent color might evoke an interstellar anomaly from a science-fiction flick. “Omg I have CHILLS. This is an ANIMAL.

Join Robert Field on an epic offshore kayak fishing adventure in Panama! Watch as he battles and lands a massive deep sea giant, experiencing the thrill of the catch up close.

This is the third supergiant isopod species discovered in the South China Sea since 2017, researchers said. Photo by Huang M-C, Kawai T (2025) At a fishing port in Taiwan, researchers bought four ...