The Ocean Census has discovered over 800 new marine species, including the rare guitar shark, through global expeditions and ...

New species of shark, sea butterfly, mud dragon, bamboo coral, water bear, octocoral, and shrimp were just some of the marine ...

The deep sea, covering approximately 65% of Earth's surface, has long been considered a biological desert. In this extreme ...

Europa, one of Jupiter’s intriguing moons, is hiding an ocean beneath its icy shell — an ocean that might harbor alien life.

Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: a volcano scientist who does her work in the middle of the Pacific Ocean—at the ...

Over a 16-month period, divers, underwater submersibles and remotely operated vehicles found 886 marine species that have all ...

Scientists exploring the Pacific Ocean have uncovered a bizarre “yellow brick road” on the seafloor.

In Norway’s Jøtul Vent Field, a 35-day expedition into the depths of the Arctic Ocean revealed a new species of deep-sea limpet (Cocculina genus) living more than 3,000 meters (10,000 feet) deep, ...

A group of scientists from the University of Oldenburg, Germany, has discovered how special bacteria in the ocean break down ...

A new source of nitrogen has been discovered. Researchers from RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau in southwestern Germany ...