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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

While most sea slugs use a rough tongue to feed on prey attached to the seafloor, B. caudactylus uses a cavernous hood to ...

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

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 ...

The Samudrayaan Mission will establish India as a significant contributor to deep-sea research and strengthen the nation’s oceanic knowledge and technological capability, said GITAM School of Science ...