When photographer Jialing Cai plunged into the ocean in the dead of night, she found creatures of the deep had risen up to ...

Strange Deep-Sea Creatures Were Once Mistaken for Monsters and It's Easy to See Why ...

An underwater voyage has revealed a network of creatures thriving at the bottom of deep-sea ocean trenches. In these extreme environments, the crushing pressure, scant food, and lack of sunlight can ...

Scientists say they’ve found more than 1,100 new marine species over the last year, emphasizing how unexplored the ocean really is.

From deep sea ghost sharks to symbiotic worms and unusual crustaceans, scientists have identified 1,121 new marine species in a single year through the Ocean Census initiative.

New research shows why some shelly critters flourished in the ocean’s harshest habitats — and others didn’t Jack Tamisiea Beds of Bathymodiolus mussels provide important habitat for other deep-sea ...