Nearly three miles beneath the surface of the Pacific, where water pressure would crush a submarine not built for the abyss, ...

Deep beneath the ocean surface, where sunlight never reaches and food is scarce, vast gardens of deep-sea sponges are quietly ...

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

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

Mucus, feces, skin and other shed tissue allowed researchers to investigate which creatures have been swimming in two ...

A camera lowered 260 meters (853 feet) into a remote fjord in northwest Greenland has captured a striking look at life — ...

The deep sea is home to many different animals, some of which you may have never heard of before. One example is the ...

A large international team of marine researchers monitored the seafloor surrounding the corpse of a whale that had sunk 4,920 ...

The ocean is still one of the biggest mysteries on Earth, and the deeper you go, the stranger it gets. Far below the surface, where sunlight can’t reach, lives a world full of creatures that look more ...

Thousands of meters below the ocean's surface lurk some gigantic creatures, much larger than their shallow-water brethren. Scientists have a few hunches for why this happens, but the debate continues.

Humans may count themselves lucky to reach 100, but some creatures have lifespans that make centuries look like a weekend. In ...