The mysterious bigfin squid has been spotted in Australia's waters for the first time. My colleagues and I from the CSIRO and Museums Victoria detail the encounters in our new research, published ...

In 2021, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration caught something miraculous during their 10th dive with Windows to the Deep exploration. The otherworldly animal in this video is a ...

Weird creatures that inhabit the ocean’s depths fall into a few different categories. There are, for example, those that look like they come from another planet. As well as the adorable, weird little ...

Rare footage of a bigfin squid captured by a ROV deployed 11,000 feet deep in the Tonga Trench. Credit: Deep Sea Research ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Bigfin squid sightings are incredibly rare—the creatures live ...

Five squids from the Magnapinna genus, known as bigfins for their distinctive flappy fins, were spotted in deep-sea surveys over the course of three years off southern Australia. These cephalopods are ...

A mysterious and rare sea creature has been filmed in Australian waters for the first time, with researchers capturing footage of the Bigfin squid (Magnapinna) at a depth of over 10,000 feet during a ...

For this month’s “Meet a SI-entist,” we chatted with the Smithsonian’s curator of cephalopods to learn more about these wonderfully weird animals on World Octopus Day. Erin Malsbury The Pacific bigfin ...

The deep sea is our planet's most mysterious environment, where strange creatures lurk like something straight out of Jaws. Now, a new study published Wednesday in the journal PLOS ONE sheds some ...