Regarding the July 11 Style article “Waving goodbye to the ocean this summer”: There are wild and scary things about the ocean. And there are wild and wonderful things about the ocean. It is this push ...

This story was reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Marine scientists have long known that plastic pollution in the ocean is a huge problem. The most visible sign of it is the ...

The oceans encompass most of the planet, but explorers have only scratched the surface of what lies beneath. What lurks below in the murky depths of the sea has an innately unsettling quality. Stories ...

One determined athlete is opening up about the strange — and sometimes scary — side effects she endured after swimming 40 miles for 21 hours straight. Mann, who narrowly missed securing a spot on the ...

Deep in the ocean's twilight zone dwells the nightmarish telescopefish. This sea creature looks more like a demon from a horror film than anything else I've seen in nature. It has a Labubu-esque mouth ...

Deep-sea explorers think they struck gold — or maybe something sinister. A team of deep-sea researchers discovered a mysterious flesh-like gold orb at the bottom of the ocean — one so alien-like it ...

Remember when Jaws made us all scared go to into the ocean? Well, new horror movie Night Swim is about to leave us terrified of the water again – only this time, it'll be backyard swimming pools we'll ...

The stage can be surprisingly resistant to the genre of fantasy. Brought to concrete life, the language of magic risks being made literal. With cinematic and televisual competition, it is an act of ...

Ceratioid anglerfish has some pole-like growth coming out of its head. — -- This newly discovered species of deep sea fish look like something that belongs in a horror movie. The mutant-looking ...