Researchers identified 24 new creatures and an entire superfamily of species in the Pacific, all while NOAA moves to ...

Glittery sea worms and sea squirts fit for "The Lord of the Rings" universe might sound like pure fantasy, but they're very ...

Two rare deep-sea oarfish known as "doomsday fish" washed up on a Cabo San Lucas beach, sparking fears about earthquake legends and leaving witnesses stunned.

Deep-sea creatures in the trenches of Japan’s volcanically active "Ring of Fire" belt are rapidly adapting to immense depths, scientists found. These observations were part of a crewed submersible ...

Meet the “ghost fish,” a phantom of the abyss. Here’s how we found the first ever proof of its existence just a few years ago. The deep sea is a part of the world that very few humans get the chance ...

The ocean is still one of the biggest mysteries on Earth, and the deeper you go, the stranger it gets. Far below the surface, ...

These three fish are freaks, phantoms and mysteries of the deep. Here’s what we’ve learned from the rare glimpses we’ve had of their lives. The deep sea is one of Earth’s final frontiers. Given its ...

In a remarkable encounter filmed at more than 3,700 feet below the surface of the Indian Ocean, a deep-sea creature resembling an alien glyph has captivated millions online. The footage shows the ...

For an animal, surviving in the ocean’s deepest trenches requires remarkable adaptations: a gelatinous body that can withstand pressure, bioluminescent features to guide it, and a transparent ...