The enormous deep-sea cousins of your garden’s pill bugs can go five years without food. A gene they pilfered from bacteria ...

Researchers exploring seamounts near the Christmas and Cocos Keeling Islands reported nearly 150 likely new marine species.

A research expedition off the coast of Brazil has documented more than 30 new deep-sea species, from translucent worms to ...

Scientists pulled 40,000 fossil spine fragments from the deep ocean floor and traced sea urchins living there for 104 million ...

“Imagine knowing a species exists, but never having seen it alive.” ...

By Marta Serafinko June 19 (Reuters) - A pill bug dwelling under a garden pot curls its body into a tiny armored ball as self ...

On the ocean floor, mouthless worms are quietly dismantling whale skeletons using acid-secreting roots and an unlikely ...

Deposited over millions of years, the whale necropolis is covered with deep-sea species, many of which are new to science.

“There are so many wonderful species in the CCZ, and with the possibility of mining looming, it’s doubly important that we ...

Chinese scientists have discovered the world's largest "whale graveyard" in a trench deep below the Indian Ocean—and it teems ...

A thriving ecosystem has been discovered in the last few decades in a region which was previously deemed empty. Neil and Sam ...

It's the oldest, largest, and deepest graveyard of whale falls ever found—and it's been feeding life for millions of years.