From bone-eating snot-flowers to snowboarding scale worms, when a whale dies it becomes a colossal island of nutrients – attracting weird and wonderful creatures to feast.

With growing interest in mining critical metals from the seafloor, countries are now negotiating international rules. The ...

This octopus can brood its eggs for nearly four years without eating. Here’s how this biological extreme has reshaped how ...

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

A newly identified sponge order, Vilesida, produces sterols linked to the oldest-known animal biomarkers, supporting the idea ...

Ancient microbial activity preserved in wrinkled seafloor sediments challenges assumptions about where traces of early life ...

While exploring ancient seabeds in Morocco, scientists discovered strange wrinkle-like textures in deep-water sediments that shouldn’t have been there. These structures are usually made by ...

Discover 15 unbelievable transparent animals that actually exist on Earth. See nature's most ghostly and rare creatures.

Scientists recorded the first shark in Antarctic waters when a sleeper shark passed a deep-sea camera in near-freezing darkness.

The deep ocean hosts animals that evolved under extreme darkness, pressure, and limited food. Many species rely on ambush tactics, bioluminescent lures, or oversized jaws to capture rare prey. These ...

In a world first, scientists that discovered a new type of chiton turned to social media crowdsourcing to come up with the new species' name.