Somewhere in the North Atlantic, more than a kilometer beneath its surface, a cold-water coral reef stretches across an ...

The Bermuda Triangle, in the North Atlantic Ocean, has become infamous for the planes and ships that are said to have ...

The vastness and mystery of the ocean have long captivated filmmakers, offering an atmospheric backdrop for some of the most ...

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws ...

The waters off the glittering coastlines of Britain's Caribbean territories have long been a mystery. But now scientists on ...

Reviewing those rare encounters, marine scientist Mark C. Benfield at Louisiana State University (LSU) connected scattered sightings and documented the fish alive in its natural depth range. Footage ...

Far beneath the ocean’s surface, where sunlight never reaches and temperatures soar near underwater volcanoes, life still thrives. Entire ecosystems survive on toxic chemicals released from ...

Nudibranchs look like fragile, colorful decorations drifting across coral reefs — but their biology tells a different story. These sea slugs steal toxins from their prey and repurpose them as chemical ...

Here’s a sentence you probably didn’t expect to read today: Thousands of strangers on the internet just collectively named a deep-sea creature that lives on sunken wood at the bottom of the ocean, and ...

A newly discovered deep-sea creature has become an unlikely Internet star. After appearing in a popular YouTube video, a rare chiton found nearly three miles beneath the ocean surface sparked a global ...

A young rock-pooler discovered a rare 'alien-like' winged creature washed up on a UK beach. Charley Taviner, five, was following a crab when he found what he thought was a huge lump of seaweed. But it ...