It’s no wonder deep-sea creatures are so strange. They survive against the odds in one of the most extreme environments on ...

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...

Imagine a world where the sun never shines, where temperatures plummet and crushing pressures would flatten most creatures in ...

Imagine descending into the ocean’s deep, dark twilight zone, a realm straight out of science fiction. Here, in a place where ...

A baby colossal squid was filmed in the deep sea by an ocean expedition near Antarctica. The world's largest squid has eluded ...

Scientists on an expedition to the South Sandwich Islands near Antarctica have recorded horrifying videos of parasitic ...

Therefore sea pigs - and other deep-sea creatures - can look very different on the surface than they do in their natural habitat. The sea pig, for example, is typically more uniform when crawling ...

Their residence attracts shrimp, fish and many other creatures. These deep-sea oases are just some of many areas of the ocean floor that scientists are only beginning to explore, discovering new ...