Each of the hundred or so pouches, known as mermaid purses, is the temporary home of a baby deep-sea skate — a spade-shaped fish related to rays and, more distantly, sharks.

In an exciting breakthrough, scientists from Fisheries and Oceans Canada made an unexpected discovery off the coast of Vancouver Island—thousands of giant, living eggs at the summit of an active ...

A world-first study led by Museums Victoria Research Institute has revealed that beneath the cold, dark, pressurized world of ...

According to the brief, around 28,000 deep-sea creatures have been identified and named, but its authors estimated that there are 2.2 million species that scientists have yet to identify—some of ...