sea creatures

Thresher sharks are known for their enormous, scythe-like tail fins that make up about half of their total body length.

The bizarre specimen is housed in a box at Enju-in Temple in Asakuchi City, Japan, along with a note saying that it was caught off the coast in 1740.

Scientists say a necropsy for the fourth whale to wash ashore in Oregon in recent weeks is "nearly impossible," making its cause of death a mystery.

A necropsy found that the porbeagle shark was "clearly" ill before dying, but researchers have yet to determine what exactly killed it.

Comments from orca expert Alfredo Lopez come as another sailor shared footage of a killer whale breaking their boat rudder.

"That is probably one of the prettiest blues and whites I've ever seen," the fisherman admitted.

A tour group came across the dead body of a 13-foot-long giant squid, washed up on a beach in New Zealand.

Based on the dimensions on the scanner, the team estimated the shape was "weighing in at 40 tons!"

"You are showing me something I've literally never seen in 35 years," one viewer said.

The newly described species has been named Ramisyllis kingghidorahi after Godzilla's monster enemy King Ghidorahi.

The viral video led many to claim it as evidence of Noah and his Ark, but paleontologists told Newsweek there's a far more likely explanation.

Merle Liivand set the record to raise awareness about the threat that rampant pollution poses to marine life.

The site contains the preserved remains of Jurassic-era echinoderms, including starfish, sea urchins and sea cucumbers.

The man reportedly experienced abdominal pain after inserting the 20-centimeter animal for about a day, but he was "too shy to see the doctor" any earlier.

Shrimp eels are rarely seen, even by biologists, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources spokesperson Erin Weeks told Newsweek.

The new law rests on the idea that lobsters—as well as other sea creatures, like crabs and octopi—are sentient beings capable of suffering.

According to Tuesday's Facebook post from Cape Lookout National Seashore in North Carolina, the blob washed ashore late last year.

Residents of the area encountered the creepy-looking ocean-dwellers along the Texas coastline last week.

The image sparked outrage online.

Officials cleared up the gelatinous creatures with cleaning boats and even tractors.

"This was one strange-looking fish."

Bloodthirsty rivalry may have driven the rapid evolution of these fearsome beasts.

Some residents think the "globster" signals a coming earthquake.

Summer winds left the Catalan shoreline covered in thousands of blue jellyfish-like animals.

The species of the fish could not be clearly identified.

Does it look like Dumbo to you?

The fierce creature was first described in 1912 by Charles Doolittle Walcott.

Scientists have a new way of tracking hundreds of new species.

Surveying four small Russian islands near the shores of Alaska, scientists spotted a grizzly "fence" of bones on the beach that turned up a rare discovery.

It is not the first time that these animals and their relatives have turned up on beaches.