The colossal squid was first described in 1925 based on specimens from the stomach of a commercially hunted sperm whale. A ...

A team of scientists set out on the research ship Falkor (too) in February for a 35-day expedition off the South Sandwich Islands, a chain of subantarctic islands. Their main goal was to use a ...

The Schmidt Ocean Institute's ROV SuBastian — a robot fitted with a slew of scientific instruments and capable of descending ...

First recognised by scientists 100 years ago, the world’s heaviest invertebrate had never been observed in its natural environment—until now. The Schmidt Ocean Institute has released the first-ever ...

They also attract predators such as sea stars. This deep-sea anglerfish, which the mission’s researchers are still working to identify, was found in one of five submarine canyons that the ...

Now, a video of a 30-centimetre-long (11 inches) juvenile of the squid species has been captured in a world first by ...

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

In a discovery that has stirred wonder across the marine biology world, a colossal squid—long considered a near-mythical ...

In a world-first, a baby colossal squid has been caught on camera in its natural habitat in what scientists have described as an 'unforgettable moment' ...

The researchers studied tissue from over 120 fish. They found that 50 to 60 percent of their diet came from ocean’s twilight ...