A rare deep-sea oarfish, also called a sea serpent, washed ashore near San Diego in Encinitas, and Scripps scientists are ...

Scientists uncovered the "mystery mollusk," a strange glowing sea creature lurking in the ocean's midnight depths.

The deep-sea fish are considered "incredibly rare" since less than 25 have been seen in Southern California waters in over a century, Ben Frable, Scripps' in-house fish expert and a museum ...

Last week, Scripps Institution of Oceanography PhD candidate Alison Laferriere found the deceased 9.5-foot specimen at ...

Monterey Bay researchers have discovered a remarkable new species of sea slug that lives in the deep sea. It swims through ...

While most sea slugs use a rough tongue to feed on prey attached to the seafloor, B. caudactylus uses a cavernous hood to ...

Ben Frable, manager of the Scripps Oceanography Marine Vertebrate Collection -- one of the largest collections of deep-sea fish in the world -- contacted the NOAA Fisheries West Coast team to ...