Six animals pulled from the deep ocean were so biologically distinct that researchers had to create entirely new taxonomic ...

More than 8,000 people submitted name suggestions for a tiny mollusk pulled from a sunken log nearly three miles beneath the ...

The ocean’s hiding some deep secrets. An oceanic expedition off Brazil has discovered 31 otherworldly new critters, including ...

Scientists recorded the first live, healthy goblin sharks in their deep-sea home, expanding the species' known range and ...

Chinese scientists have discovered the world's largest "whale graveyard" in a trench deep below the Indian Ocean—and it teems ...

By Marta Serafinko June 19 (Reuters) - A pill bug dwelling under a garden pot curls its body into a tiny armored ball as self ...

Scientists spotted the enigmatic creatures in 2019 and again in 2024, marking the first time they've been observed alive in ...

Scientists say they’ve found more than 1,100 new marine species over the last year, emphasizing how unexplored the ocean really is.

Goblin sharks have spent years in public imagination as something half-seen, half-legendary, a pale, long-snouted predator ...

A new study reveals how deep-sea isopods survive years without food using giant stomachs, slow metabolism and a gene that ...

On the flip side, a new paper in Cell shows how supergiant deep-sea animals can survive for as long as five years without ...

The researchers saw many strange animals — many believed to be new to science — living off the whale carcasses.