The specimens were the bycatch of a fishing vessel in the South China Sea, which researchers later bought to study.
Jason Fowler told ABC News Australia that the sunfish, discovered in late March at Lowlands Beach, resembled “a giant sort of yellowy-brown blob.” Ocean sunfish, or Mola molas, are the heaviest bony ...
Scientists have filmed a giant deep-sea spider crawling on the Southern Ocean ... in polar regions due to “deep-sea gigantism”, a phenomenon of several deep-sea animals growing larger than their ...
A stunning video of a woman swimming next to a giant sunfish off the coast of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, has gone viral, leaving ...
Iceberg A-84 broke off from Antarctica and revealed a thriving community of sea creatures underneath. Now, researchers are ...
Creepy crawly alert! In the icy South Atlantic, researchers have photographed a fascinating-looking creature at a depth of ...
At a fishing port in Taiwan, researchers bought four giant crustaceans ... →3-foot-long river creature with 'sharp' teeth discovered →'Bright'-eyed sea creature with 'long' tongue is new ...
Giant species are 5.9 inches ... isopod species discovered in the South China Sea since 2017, according to researchers. These prehistoric-looking creatures “attracted public attention” in ...