In 2017, the Schmidt Ocean Institute—a research institute founded by husband and wife team Eric and Wendy Schmidt —sent its Falkor research vessel to the southern half of the Phoenix Islands in the ...

Journey to the deep sea with the Schmidt Ocean Institute and witness the ghostly beauty of the glass octopus. This footage ...

Deep-sea creatures often look more like science fiction monsters than marine animals. The glass octopus is one such animal. The Schmidt Ocean Institute captured this footage of the incredibly rare ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Are you a fan of the ocean and intrigued by everything that lives in it? I certainly am, and so when I stumbled across this ...

A deep-sea expedition captured a picture of the elusive glass octopus, an almost completely transparent creature. The picture shows several of the rare octopuses, formally known as Vitreledonella ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. A rare sighting of an octopus that is so transparent that you can see its internal organs and digestive tract has been caught on video. The video has been ...

Deep under the sea, an almost entirely transparent creature has been spotted. While on a 34-day journey in a remote corner of the Pacific Ocean, marine biologists recently made two rare sightings of a ...

An almost completely transparent "glass octopus" was sighted in the middle of the Pacific Ocean in June by marine scientists on the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor. The rarely ...

TAMPA, Fla. — Marine scientists with the Schmidt Ocean Institute came across a sea creature you don't see every day — or at all if you're not looking close enough. The nonprofit organization tweeted ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...