Our oceans are as remarkable as they are mysterious; the deep dark waters as foreign to us as far-reaching planets. Though ...

Since 1984, five specimens of the new species have been found in the waters of Vanuatu and New Caledonia, according to a ...

Something enveloped it and pulled it toward the surface. Trawlers looked at the deep-sea animal in their catch. They didn't ...

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute scientists have discovered Bathydevius caudactylus, a new species of glowing sea slug that lives deep in the ocean.

Researchers inside a deep-sea vehicle collected sea cucumbers from the seafloor, then discovered two new species. Jong Marshes via Unsplash Off the western coast of Australia, the Wallaby-Zenith ...

In a fascinating video, researchers have revealed a new and bizarre see-through species of sea slug floating around the midnight zone of the deep sea.

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

The U.S. push to mine international waters for metals defies global efforts to control and protect these fragile ecosystems.

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

The latest addition is the Marine Organismal Body Size (MOBS) database, an open-access resource that—as its name implies—has ...

A recently published study explores the relationship between sea spiders and bacteria. Discover more and meet one of the ...

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