A team of oceanographers watching a deep-sea rover’s camera never saw this coming: a young gulper eel performing fluid acrobatics for the lens. The reactions caught on video from the group of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A gulper eel, also known as the pelican eel, wows scientists with a rare display of its ability to inflate its mouth in an instant ...

Watching a Gulper Eel’s ballooning jaw in action is guaranteed to make your own jaw drop. Anybody who’s ever seen a Blue Planet documentary, or pretty much any other nature show narrated by Sir David ...

The Exploration Vessel Nautilus was treated to an extraordinary sight while on a mission in Hawaii. The team has found a gulper eel ballooning like an airbag. The crew was able to capture the moment ...

Scientists saw a mysterious deep sea animal, still misshapen from its last meal, swimming off the coast of Costa Rica, a first-of-its-kind video shows. Screengrab from the Schmidt Ocean Institute's ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. The deep ...

Rare deep-sea footage captures a blood-sucking parasite latched onto the body of a ghoulish gulper eel. In the video, the eel swims close to the camera before revealing a bright-red parasite ...

As it drifts through the inky blackness of the "midnight zone" in the deep sea, the pelican eel undulates its narrow, whiplike tail and long, snakelike body. It's hard to imagine its slender form ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A large gray serpent-like eel with a large lump in its stomach swims through the deep ocean. A large gray serpent-like eel with a ...