Learn how researchers discovered a new superfamily living at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

Researchers identified 24 new creatures and an entire superfamily of species in the Pacific, all while NOAA moves to ...

"Here, our cameras captured the prehistoric-looking Vanuatu nautilus, huge oilfish and bluntnose sixgill sharks, and the ...

Lurking in the depths of the ocean are countless species that have never been seen by humans before. As part of a project to ...

In the mysterious world of the ocean’s depths, there’s a creature so bizarre that it looks like it swam straight out of a sci-fi movie. Meet the goblin shark — an ancient, rarely seen predator whose ...

The ocean is full of some incredibly odd creatures. It feels like the further you go down, the stranger and more alien-like they become. With so many interesting creatures, it makes you wonder, what ...

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 ...

Dive into the abyss and discover 25 creepy deep sea creatures you've never heard of! From frilled sharks to vampire squid, ...

At the bottom of the world’s trenches, there’s a fish that shouldn’t exist. Here’s how it earned the title of the deepest-living fish on Earth. If you were to drop a camera into one of Earth’s ...

Mesopelagic fish, long overlooked in ocean chemistry, are now proven to excrete carbonate minerals much like their shallow-water counterparts—despite living in dark, high-pressure depths. Using the ...