In the inky blackness nearly 10,000 meters below the Pacific Ocean, scientists have discovered strange animals that may hold ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Image source, Jialing Cai/The Nippon Foundation-Nekton Ocean Census/Schmidt Ocean Institute A carnivorous "death-ball" sponge ...

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, ...

Far beneath the waves, animals evolve in strange and surprising ways, often becoming much larger than their shallow-water ...

The vast array of organisms in the deep sea remains a mystery to humans. Now, marine biologists can add one more puzzle to the list. A collection of odd materials was discovered nearly four miles ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. DNA analysis has established that creatures captured during a voyage to the mid-Atlantic are members of the Torquaratoridae; a recently discovered ...

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 sea covers roughly 70% of our planet, yet we know surprisingly little about its depths. Vast, mysterious, and often unfathomable, it hides countless shipwrecks, scary creatures, and other secrets ...

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 ...

The knotty sea spider, Pycnogonum litorale, is not actually a spider, but it does represent a significant early branch in the genetic family tree that includes spiders, as well as scorpions, ticks and ...