Here are seven amazing animals that do not require oxygen to survive.

Look, here comes a blobfish! This thrilling deep-sea fish was voted the world's ugliest animal by the Ugly Animal Preservation Society. But its jelly-like skin looks much more natural at 900 meters.

Most life on Earth depends on oxygen—but not these creatures! From deep-sea organisms to microscopic marvels, these 9 animals ...

We are exploring the role of hydrothermal vents in driving the evolution of novel adaptations in deep-sea animals, throughout the 500+ million year history of complex life on our planet. In many parts ...

exists an entire world of deep sea creatures that humans rarely glimpse. It's one of the planet's largest ecosystems and can reach up to 35,876 feet (or 10,935 meters) deep. It's filled with ...

An international group of scientists has returned from the depths of the ocean with a new lab animal in hand: a glowing anemone whose tentacles contain a novel fluorescent protein. Green ...

Plankton are mostly microscopic algae and animals found throughout Earth's ... transporting carbon to the deep sea and helping to fight climate change. While plankton blooms like this are usually ...

That’s a long time to go without seeing its namesake animal in the ocean depths ... Hercules can dive as deep as 13,100 feet, but was at around 1,200 feet when it first spotted a nautilus.

When whale carcasses sink to the seafloor, the carbon in their carcasses can create a feast for deep-sea ... animals with shells or external skeletons. Like land plants and seagrasses, microscopic ...