Scientists have long assumed the deep-sea Alicella gigantea was an uncommon survivor of the abyss.

Far below the ocean’s surface, where sunlight disappears and pressure reaches crushing levels, some of the planet’s strangest ...

Far below the Pacific, a volcano long written off as geologically dead has turned out to be both active and teeming with life ...

A bumpy snailfish, Andean mouse opossum and ancient sea cow were just some of the many species described in 2025.

A transparent goby fish drifted through the darkness, its skeleton visible through paper-thin skin. Nearby, a sea slug wore ...

Dynamic mounds made of methane at a depth of some 3,640 meters act like “frozen reefs” for a bizarre array of deep-sea ...

As companies search underwater for resources, scientists are taking inventory of the ocean-dwelling creatures that could be ...

Deep-sea creatures in the trenches of Japan’s volcanically active "Ring of Fire" belt are rapidly adapting to immense depths, scientists found. These observations were part of a crewed submersible ...

Deep-sea mining trials revealed significant but localized biodiversity loss in one of the planet’s least explored ecosystems. Global demand for critical metals is rising sharply, prompting many ...

Researchers are not even halfway through analyzing the thousands of samples collected from the Southern Ocean, but they've already discovered 30 new deep-sea creatures. Reading time 2 minutes The deep ...

Thousands of feet down off the coast of Japan swam a pink sea creature with “dark yellow eggs.” Out of the shadows, something encircled it and pulled it to the surface. Sifting through their catch, ...

Beneath cold, high-pressure oceans, water and gas molecules clump together into crystalline solids called gas hydrates. During a research cruise around the North Pole, scientists encountered the ...