But its showstopper feature is that the front part of its head is transparent. Early scientific drawings of this intriguing ...

A new study suggests that deep-sea life reaps the benefits of icebergs’ castoffs — a rare silver lining as a warming planet ...

In the ocean's twilight zone, where the reach of the Sun fades to nothing, an epic migration begins every time night falls.

Scientists have discovered that deep-sea mining plumes can strip vital nutrition from the ocean’s twilight zone, replacing natural food with nutrient-poor sediment. The resulting “junk food” effect ...

You think you know what "cute" looks like? Prepare to have your understanding shattered. Because lurking in one of the ...

Supergiant deep-sea isopods endure years without food by pairing an enlarged stomach with cold-adapted metabolic control.

A siphonophore—a colonial marine invertebrate related to the venomous stinging Portuguese Man-o-war—is scanned using Deep ...

The ocean’s hiding some deep secrets. An oceanic expedition off Brazil has discovered 31 otherworldly new critters, including ghostly invertebrates, animals living inside their own bodily fluids and ...

Scientists exploring one of Earth's least-understood ecosystems identified dozens of previously unknown species, including glowing jellyfish ROV SuBastian / Schmidt Ocean Institute Scientists ...

Detached sea cucumber tissue was found to survive and keep regenerating for years in ordinary seawater. The discovery highlights a remarkable regenerative ability that could help scientists better ...

Marine biologist Alan Jamieson had given up on seeing a goblin shark in its underwater home. After all, they live thousands of feet underwater in total darkness and since being discovered over 100 ...

Marine biologist Alan Jamieson had given up on seeing a goblin shark in its underwater home. After all, they live thousands of feet underwater in total darkness and since being discovered over 100 ...