Thousands of meters below the waves off Australia's east coast, far beyond where sunlight can reach, a stunning light show ...

A mischievous sea cucumber and 56 other newly discovered marine species are making a splash in the South Atlantic Ocean. The ...

A horned sea cucumber named after a Norse trickster god is one of dozens of newly identified creatures from a deep-sea canyon ...

The ancestors of the giant isopod Bathynomus jamesi—a seafloor-dwelling creature that resembles a huge pill bug—acquired the ...

The ocean’s deepest reaches harbor some of the most alien and terrifying life forms on Earth. Far below where sunlight fades to eternal darkness, creatures have evolved in ways that seem to defy ...

Marine animals living in the cold, dark depths of the ocean are interconnected across the world by a hidden "superhighway", a groundbreaking new study suggests. The research, published in the journal ...

As anyone who’s stayed up well past their bedtime knows, catching a taxi or Uber home can be a godsend, and now recent research shows that even some deep sea animals appreciate the value of bumming a ...

For all of humanity’s ventures to outer space, we’ve yet to see 99.999% of the deep-sea floor. In the latest subaquatic news, researchers discovered some 4,000 marine species, 88% of which were new ...

Dive into the movement of the spindly brittle star, which is more mobile, and more connected, in the deep sea. Deep-sea brittle stars are always on the move. That’s what a new study seems to suggest, ...

In "Deep Blue Contact," there is fun to be had even after returning from an exploration. It is the time to open the ...

Green eyes visible deep within a transparent head. Fangs protruding from the mouth. Eyes of different sizes on the left and right. When looking at photos of deep-sea creatures, even though we know ...