Even when we think we know everything, or that we think we have a grasp on what species occur in our environment, we don’t,” ...

Hidden in the abyss of the Atacama Trench, Dulcibella camanchaca reveals itself as a unique predator adapted to the darkness.

Scientists have discovered that whales move nutrients thousands of miles—in their urine—from as far as Alaska to Hawaii.

Late last year, a massive ocean swell caused by a low pressure system in the North Pacific generated waves up to 20 meters ...

Many otherworldly deep-sea creatures, though, are so beautiful and mysterious that you won't believe they exist. Even in the ...

Biodiversity is depleted and large furrows still lie in the seabed where deep-sea mining equipment operated more than 40 years ago, in findings that suggest it will take the deep sea multiple ...

Parrotfish, clownfish, eels, crabs, shrimp, and many other sea creatures all call coral reefs home. These smaller animals bring larger hunters, like dusky sharks, blue sharks, blacktip sharks, and ...

Story continues below this ad The discovery, captured by photographer David Jara Boguñá, shocked scientists as these creatures are almost ... fossil,” the frilled shark is a deep-sea species that ...

The herring’s body is bluish-green on the top of the back, and the stomach and sides are a bright silver. This coloring is known as countershading, and it makes Pacific herring harder to see from ...

AKRON, Ohio (WJW) — The sustained deep freeze has been uncomfortable ... local zoos are tasked with managing the welfare of hundreds of animals, each with an individual tolerance to the elements.

Another possibility is that before an earthquake there is a release of large quantities of carbon monoxide gas, which could also affect oarfish and other deep-sea creatures. One user commented on ...

It was an oarfish — known in Japanese lore as the “Messenger of the Sea God” — a creature of the deep that rarely graces ... Its long, eel-like body shimmers with a metallic sheen ...