The finding shows how life spreads between isolated deep-sea vents — and how closely those ecosystems are tied to the sunlit ...

Deep sea octopus discovery in Trinidad and Tobago: scientists aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute's RV Falkor (too) retrieved ...

Discover the fascinating world of deep sea creatures that look almost unreal. From glowing anglerfish and transparent ...

Meet some of the 31 new species scientists have identified in what could be record time, off the coast of Brazil.

Hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor host a broad range of rare and unusual ecosystems. They can be spread far apart, yet ...

A pill bug dwelling under a garden pot curls its body into a tiny armored ball as self-defense. Far below the ocean surface, some of its much larger relatives face a harder problem: ​how to stay alive ...

Researchers have uncovered surprising evidence that the deep ocean’s carbon-fixing engine works very differently than long assumed. While ammonia-oxidizing archaea were thought to dominate carbon ...

Living nearly 900 meters underwater, this isopod evolved unusual adaptations to thrive in the world’s most food-scarce ...

How do you bring organisms back from deep depths like the Mariana Trench without the organisms exploding from the change in outside pressure? Researchers have had success bringing organisms from the ...

Twenty-seven photographs from seven deep-sea localities in the North Atlantic reveal cirrate octopods in their natural habitat. The photographs demonstrate that these octopods are benthopelagic, ...

After a two week expedition off the coast of Brazil, an international team of researchers discovered 31 new marine species, ...

Drilling for minerals deep in the ocean could have immense consequences for the tiny animals at the core of the vast marine food web — and ultimately affect fisheries and the food we find on our ...