Deep-sea mining could impact marine life stretching from the tiniest bottom dwellers to apex predators like swordfish and ...

Deep-sea mining could impact marine life stretching from the tiniest bottom dwellers to apex predators like swordfish and ...

Deep below the surface of the ocean, bacteria and critters that feed off nutrients spouting from hydrothermal vents met with ...

Commercial trawlers off the southern coast of India caught several unfamiliar-looking eels in January 2024 and gave the ...

Researchers said they named the new species after the Nansei Islands near the Okinawa Trough where it was first discovered ...

This previously unknown symbiotic relationship helps keep methane—a major greenhouse gas—trapped in the ocean.

“While the deep sea feels really far away, all organisms are interconnected. Even though they’re small, these animals have a big impact in that environment,” Goffredi said.

Scientists say they have discovered three previously unknown, unnamed species of sea spider off the U.S. West Coast that ...

Endoxocrinus kexuei, or the Kexue crinoid, was named after the ocean vessel "Kexue" from the Chinese Academy of Science for ...

This crazy-looking sea creature has a heart-shaped body and a deep crimson color that seems to sparkle and glow. However, the jelly doesn’t actually produce its own light.

Scientists on a research expedition in the Southern Ocean captured the first footage of a living Gonatus antarcticus squid. The colorful, three-foot squid species was only known to scientists ...