The ocean is home to a vast array of different animals, each with its own traits. These include different forms of mating, ...

Beds of Bathymodiolus mussels provide important habitat for other deep-sea critters, including sea stars, scaleworms and limpets. NOAA Ocean Exploration. The deep sea is the large ...

When most of us picture the ocean, we imagine turquoise waves, colorful reefs, and shoals of darting fish. But that’s only the surface. Venture deeper, far below the last reach of sunlight, and you ...

The marine biologists of the Schmidt Ocean Institute are a busy bunch. Over the last few years, scientists aboard the ...

More than a million giant skate eggs are discovered incubating in the heat of an underwater Pacific Ocean volcano.

Thousands of strangers on the internet just collectively named a deep-sea creature that lives on sunken wood at the bottom of ...

In July and August scientists onboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor (too) spotted the oddities through the eyes of an underwater robot as they explored the Mar del Plata Canyon.

A newly discovered deep-sea creature has become an unlikely Internet star. After appearing in a popular YouTube video, a rare ...

The yeti crab is a strange species because of its furry appearance. Read here to learn about why these crabs are furry!

The Senckenberg Ocean Species Alliance (SOSA), in partnership with the scientific publisher Pensoft Publishers and science ...

Japanese scientists confirm a new marine coral species, Corallizoanthus aureus, that glows in the dark and inhabits deep caves in the ocean.

The deep sea is cold, dark and under immense pressure. Yet life has found a way to prevail there, in the form of some of ...