A 2024 underwater expedition came upon a large structure thought to be a shipwreck. In reality, it was a large animal, and a ...

MBARI's advanced underwater technology is revealing the remarkable species that thrive in the deep sea. In 2019, MBARI ...

Researchers have discovered three new species of deep-sea snailfish off the coast of California, including the bumpy ...

The deep sea is home to some of the weirdest creatures on Earth, from ghostly elder fish to carnivorous harp sponges.

The discovery challenges "long-standing assumptions about life's potential at extreme depths," study authors said.

A recent underwater expedition has revealed a thriving network of creatures at the bottom of deep-sea ocean trenches. These extreme environments, with crushing pressure, scant food, and no sunlight, ...

Deep sea creatures are remarkably well adapted to their hellish environment. So why do we parade them as bizarre and weird?

This rising din threatens to drown out the ocean’s own voices—songs so well-structured that a leopard seal’s ( Hydrurga ...

Researchers travelling along the Kuril-Kamchatka and Aleutian trenches in the northwest Pacific Ocean used a submersible to ...

University of Colorado Boulder Professor Nicole Xu is developing biohybrid robotic jellyfish by integrating tiny microelectronic systems into the live animals.

“Underwater volcanoes during Snowball Earth played a crucial role” in the transformation of our world from frozen ice-planet ...

An underwater voyage has revealed a network of creatures thriving at the bottom of deep-sea ocean trenches. In these extreme environments, the crushing pressure, scant food and lack of sunlight can ...