Some of the world’s most fascinating creatures live underwater. And unlike the more mainstream animals under the sea — seahorses, sharks, and even deep sea anglerfish — one cool member of the aquatic ...

Marine animals living in the cold, dark depths of the ocean are interconnected across the world by a hidden “superhighway”, a groundbreaking new study suggests. The research, published in the journal ...

The Senckenberg Ocean Species Alliance (SOSA), in partnership with the scientific publisher Pensoft Publishers and science YouTuber Ze Frank, have let the internet name a newly discovered deep‑sea ...

Beneath the ocean's surface lies a world of perpetual darkness, home to some of Earth's most bizarre and fascinating creatures. These deep-sea inhabitants have evolved extraordinary adaptations to ...

For all of humanity’s ventures to outer space, we’ve yet to see 99.999% of the deep-sea floor. In the latest subaquatic news, researchers discovered some 4,000 marine species, 88% of which were new ...

When most of us picture the ocean, we imagine turquoise waves, colorful reefs, and shoals of darting fish. But that’s only the surface. Venture deeper, far below the last reach of sunlight, and you ...

An underwater voyage has revealed a network of creatures thriving at the bottom of deep-sea ocean trenches. In these extreme environments, the crushing pressure, scant food, and lack of sunlight can ...

Meet the “ghost fish,” a phantom of the abyss. Here’s how we found the first ever proof of its existence just a few years ago. The deep sea is a part of the world that very few humans get the chance ...

Thousands of meters below the ocean's surface lurk some gigantic creatures, much larger than their shallow-water brethren. Scientists have a few hunches for why this happens, but the debate continues.

This zone contains a vast amount of marine life, potentially over 90% of all ocean life, and supports important commercial and recreational fisheries. Creatures in the twilight zone help mitigate ...