Researchers identified 24 new creatures and an entire superfamily of species in the Pacific, all while NOAA moves to ...

Researchers at MBARI, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, have been exploring this hidden world for years. Using ...

Deep-sea creatures in the trenches of Japan’s volcanically active "Ring of Fire" belt are rapidly adapting to immense depths, scientists found. These observations were part of a crewed submersible ...

The ocean is still one of the biggest mysteries on Earth, and the deeper you go, the stranger it gets. Far below the surface, ...

These three fish are freaks, phantoms and mysteries of the deep. Here’s what we’ve learned from the rare glimpses we’ve had of their lives. The deep sea is one of Earth’s final frontiers. Given its ...

For an animal, surviving in the ocean's deepest trenches requires remarkable adaptations: a gelatinous body that can withstand pressure, bioluminescent features to guide it, and a transparent ...

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 ...

A newly discovered deep-sea creature has become an unlikely Internet star. After appearing in a popular YouTube video, a rare chiton found nearly three miles beneath the ocean surface sparked a global ...

Fabio Cortesi receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Lily Fogg previously received a Research Training Program scholarship from the Australian Government. The deep sea is cold, dark ...