The ancestors of the giant isopod Bathynomus jamesi—a seafloor-dwelling creature that resembles a huge pill bug—acquired the ...

Uncover 25 bizarre deep-sea creatures that defy explanation. See alien life forms like anglerfish and goblin sharks thriving in extreme ocean depths. Explo ...

In "Deep Blue Contact," there is fun to be had even after returning from an exploration. It is the time to open the ...

Film-maker Eleanor Mortimer accompanies a scientific expedition to the deep Pacific, where new creatures are abundant yet threatened by sea mining ...

Marine animals living in the cold, dark depths of the ocean are interconnected across the world by a hidden "superhighway", a groundbreaking new study suggests. The research, published in the journal ...

A newly described species of ghost shark, Rhinochimaera costaricana, has been identified from deep waters off Costa Rica using both physical characteristics and genetic evidence.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Graneledone octopus, a suspected new species, moves across the seafloor during a deep-sea ocean expedition off the coast of ...

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For all of humanity’s ventures to outer space, we’ve yet to see 99.999% of the deep-sea floor. In the latest subaquatic news, researchers discovered some 4,000 marine species, 88% of which were new ...

Dive into the movement of the spindly brittle star, which is more mobile, and more connected, in the deep sea. Deep-sea brittle stars are always on the move. That’s what a new study seems to suggest, ...