The ocean is full of surprises, and scientists are still finding creatures that seem almost unreal. From tiny reef animals to ...

The most transformative deep sea finding in a generation is not a single strange animal or a record-breaking trench, but ...

Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences described 72 new species last year, from elegant birds to strange sea ...

A towering, centuries old sea creature has been found rising from the seafloor off New Zealand, its branches forming a living ...

As you get closer to the bottom of the ocean, it gets darker, denser and stranger. All light from the surface has been absorbed, and only the most adapted species can navigate the lack of oxygen in ...

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 ...

Scientists in New Zealand have discovered what may be the biggest example of the species ever recorded—at more than 13 feet ...

Scientists found a sea creature with “large” pores on its throat off of Antarctica and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Derek Oyen via Unsplash Off the coast of Antarctica, ...

Meet the “ghost fish,” a phantom of the abyss. Here’s how we found the first ever proof of its existence just a few years ago. The deep sea is a part of the world that very few humans get the chance ...

Scientists exploring a World War II weapons dumpsite in the Baltic Sea have discovered swarms of sea creatures thriving on the surfaces of long-abandoned explosives thought to be toxic to marine life.

Off the coast of Antarctica, scientists aboard a research vessel sorted through the specimens they’d collected. Among the catch were two sea creatures with “large” pores on their throats. It took ...