Researchers have discovered a remarkable new species of sea slug that lives in the deep sea. Nicknamed the 'mystery mollusc,' the nudibranch Bathydevius caudactylus swims through the ocean's midnight ...

An ocean expedition to a dynamic marine realm off the little-explored Chilean coast — with seeps and vents emitting nutrients ...

Oxygen, the molecule that supports intelligent life as we know it, is largely made by plants. Whether underwater or on land, ...

Chinese scientists have found abiotic organic compounds in the ocean crust, shedding light on deep-sea carbon cycles and life ...

Yet these tiny organisms — called plankton — may be unable to thrive in the rapidly warming oceans, according to a pair of ...

Caymanostella scrippscognaticausa, named after the Scripps family group that helped fund the study, has a pentagonal body and ...

Last week, Scripps Institution of Oceanography PhD candidate Alison Laferriere found the deceased 9.5-foot specimen at ...

That’s a reflection of the way B. caudactylus goes about life in the deep sea: with the flow, as the animal is neutrally buoyant. When it swims, it does so slowly. Sometimes, it moves about the ...

"Deep-sea mining, which involves scooping material from the seafloor ... The midnight zone is cold and dark and very ...

Once it forms, particles of marine snow can take weeks to slowly drift to the ocean floor. There, it becomes a vital food ...