Invertebrates

A "seafood mafia" is plying the waters between India and Sri Lanka to satisfy China's appetite for an increasingly rare delicacy.

Revealing the unseen world under Monterey Bay.

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.

Clinging to the underside of ice hundreds of feet thick, strange communities eke out a living, while researchers race to study them before they disappear.

An underwater photographer captured the stunning side of a barrel jelly, usually seen washed up on the beach as a pile of goo.

We asked Ivvet Modinou about the underwater creature that shares her name: P. modinouae.

Just because they're huge and garish doesn't mean they're easy to find.

Too many El Niños have diminished the "diablo rojo."

Their "mouth-fighting" produces one of the loudest underwater sounds ever recorded.

One scientist argues that we should reconsider the Bobbit worm.

Anything worth doing is worth doing right.

A close-up look at giant isopod specimens.

One researcher thinks mollusks called chitons are more complex than they seem.

They got legs, and they know how to use them.