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 ...
Chinese scientists have found abiotic organic compounds in the ocean crust, shedding light on deep-sea carbon cycles and life ...
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 ...
Yet these tiny organisms - called plankton - may be unable to thrive in the rapidly warming oceans, according to a pair of ...
The oceans play a big role in preventing the Earth from getting even hotter due to climate change. That's thanks to the ocean ...
"Deep-sea mining, which involves scooping material from the seafloor ... The midnight zone is cold and dark and very ...
While most sea slugs use a rough tongue to feed on prey attached to the seafloor, B. caudactylus uses a cavernous hood to ...