Scientists say they’ve found more than 1,100 new marine species over the last year, emphasizing how unexplored the ocean ...

Strange Deep-Sea Creatures Were Once Mistaken for Monsters and It's Easy to See Why ...

A large international team of marine researchers monitored the seafloor surrounding the corpse of a whale that had sunk 4,920 ...

When scientists at Germany’s Senckenberg Natural History Museum asked the internet to help name a newly discovered deep-sea creature, more than 8,000 suggestions poured in. The tiny mollusk in ...

Centuries before modern science could more accurately explain the natural world, brief animal sightings often inspired ...

A mysterious little blue octopus discovered nearly 6,000 feet beneath the waters of the Galápagos Islands has officially been identified as a brand-new species. About the size of a golf ball, the tiny ...

The abyssal zone lies nearly three miles beneath the ocean's surface and is cold, barren, and lifeless. Or so researchers ...

In a remarkable deep-sea breakthrough, researchers have discovered 24 new species of amphipods in the Pacific’s Clarion-Clipperton Zone—including a rare, entirely new superfamily. The findings reveal ...