The deep ocean remains largely unexplored, despite containing a large portion of the living organisms and animals on Earth.

Butterfly fish feeding on a coral reef. The ability to bite food off hard surfaces, such as coral, evolved about 50 million years ago and led to the rapid formation of new species of fish on coral ...

A new species of coelacanth has been identified from a 150-year-old fossil housed at London’s Natural History Museum. Former University of Portsmouth palaeontology student Jack L. Norton located the ...