In the ocean's twilight zone, where the reach of the Sun fades to nothing, an epic migration begins every time night falls.
For the first time, researchers have filmed the elusive goblin shark alive in the deep ocean where it naturally lives. The ...
A new study suggests that deep-sea life reaps the benefits of icebergs’ castoffs — a rare silver lining as a warming planet ...
Twenty-four species of deep-sea crustacean, all previously unknown to science, have been formally described from the ...
Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute captured 4K footage of a giant phantom jellyfish, Stygiomedusa ...
Deep below the surface of the ocean, bacteria and critters that feed off nutrients spouting from hydrothermal vents met with a sudden wave of volcanic sediment, leaving them suffocated. Four months ...
“Imagine knowing a species exists, but never having seen it alive.” ...
The enormous deep-sea cousins of your garden’s pill bugs can go five years without food. A gene they pilfered from bacteria ...
New research shows why some shelly critters flourished in the ocean’s harshest habitats — and others didn’t Jack Tamisiea Beds of Bathymodiolus mussels provide important habitat for other deep-sea ...
The ocean is still one of the biggest mysteries on Earth, and the deeper you go, the stranger it gets. Far below the surface, where sunlight can't reach, lives a world full of creatures that look more ...