For the first time, a live Pacific barreleye fish—complete with transparent head—has been caught on video. The deep-sea fish's tubular eyes pivot under a clear dome.
With a head like a fighter-plane cockpit, a Pacific barreleye fish shows off its transparent head and barrel-like eyes in the first specimen ever found alive. With video.
After having been bitten severely by a shark, a dolphin was rescued Monday off Australia. He has undergone surgery and is expected to make a full recovery.
A giant artwork in screaming color, a fatally fiery festival, and snowstorms in Scotland are among the eye-popping images in our pick of the week's best news pictures.
During Australia's recent deadly fires, firefighters came upon a burned and dazed female koala—now nicknamed Sam—which eagerly gulped the water they offered.
Valentine's Day is coming, and a lot of people have love on the brain—quite literally, according to new medical technology that reveals the "mechanical" side of romance.
A potentially immortal jellyfish species that can age backward—the Benjamin Button of the deep—is silently invading oceans, swarm by swarm, a recent study says.
A rare tuatara named Henry got a new lease on life when a cancerous tumor was removed from his genitals—resulting in 11 tuatara babies that hatched on Monday.
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