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 large gray serpent-like eel with a large lump in its stomach swims through the dark ocean. Ocean explorers recently stumbled upon an extremely unusual sight in the Pacific's deep sea — a rare, ...

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 ...

The Exploration Vessel Nautilus was treated to an extraordinary sight while on a mission in Hawaii. The team has found a gulper eel ballooning like an airbag. The crew was able to capture the moment ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists saw a mysterious deep sea animal, still misshapen from its last meal, swimming off the coast of Costa Rica, a first-of-its-kind video shows. Screengrab from the Schmidt Ocean Institute's ...

Remotely operated vehicle on a research dive captures close-up video of a beady-eyed gulper eel with a parasitic copepod permanently attached to its body. When you purchase through links on our site, ...