From Hello Kitty to Pikachu, the country changed what the world considers adorable. But do these characters represent joy — ...

Sea Hares are beautiful and strange creatures, snails with greatly reduced, fragile, internal shells. They are named after their sensory tentacles that look a bit like 'bunny-ears' but are used to ...

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Goldfish are often considered one of the dumbest animals due to their short memory span and repetitive behavior. However, studies show they can actually remember things for month. This flightless ...

coastal development and climate change to the marine animals. In more than half of the areas studied, threats are declining overall, the study found. But there are some exceptions. Sea turtle ...

Scientists have filmed a live colossal squid in its natural deep-sea habitat for the first time, a century after the species was first discovered. The rare footage was recorded near the South Sandwich ...

Not only do these animals live in an enormous, dark and three-dimensional environment, they are also probably actively avoiding us. Most of our deep-sea exploration equipment is large, noisy and uses ...

Eight workers were asleep at the time… A towering wave measuring 5 to 6 metres swept a Russian woman off the rocks at a Koh Samui viewpoint and into the sea, where she vanished. Efforts to rescue her ...