A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...

Imagine a world where the sun never shines, where temperatures plummet and crushing pressures would flatten most creatures in ...

Imagine descending into the ocean’s deep, dark twilight zone, a realm straight out of science fiction. Here, in a place where ...

It’s no wonder deep-sea creatures are so strange. They survive against the odds in one of the most extreme environments on ...

Their residence attracts shrimp, fish and many other creatures. These deep-sea oases are just some of many areas of the ocean floor that scientists are only beginning to explore, discovering new ...

Scientists on an expedition to the South Sandwich Islands near Antarctica have recorded horrifying videos of parasitic ...

Therefore sea pigs - and other deep-sea creatures - can look very different on the surface than they do in their natural habitat. The sea pig, for example, is typically more uniform when crawling ...

The Sampling the Abyss expedition surveyed Australia’s east coast abyssal waters from Tasmania to Queensland, mostly at depths between 2500 and 4000 metres beyond the continental shelf. An ...

Iceberg A-84 broke off from Antarctica and revealed a thriving community of sea creatures underneath. Now, researchers are curious as to how these species have survived. Fracturing icebergs are only ...

Scientists say they've captured the first footage of a living colossal squid in the deep sea ... a mysterious creature lurking in the Antarctic abyss, has finally made a cameo, a cohort of ...