Just like trucks, planes occasionally find their way to the bottom of the ocean. For example, deep-sea divers in Oahu, Hawaii ...

The researchers saw many strange animals — many believed to be new to science — living off the whale carcasses.

Strange living communities found in rocks at the deepest parts of the ocean have astonished scientists around the world.

Shockingly, the ocean covers the majority of our planet, but the absolute majority of it remains unexplored to this day. The ...

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

Imagine you are on some distant beach centuries ago and something huge emerges from the depths of the ocean. It has a longer body than most boats, lined with dozens of razor sharp teeth and eyes ...

A glass squid filmed at 1,725 meters in the Colorado-Rawson submarine canyon. (ROV SuBastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute, CC ...

Scientists exploring deep underwater canyons off the coast of Western Australia uncovered a hidden world packed with bizarre and elusive marine life — including signs of the legendary giant squid. By ...

The strange, shiny discovery, retrieved from the ocean near Alaska in 2023, turned out to be part of an anemone, scientists said. By John Yoon Explorers sent a robot two miles under the ocean’s ...

The new species, named Microeledone galapagensis, has a blue hue, which is believed to be the rarest color in nature.

A NEW ghost shark and a carnivorous “death ball” sponge are just two of the over 1,100 new species discovered in the deep sea this year. Scientists also found a 3cm sea worm whose rare ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Beneath the neon lights of a laser-scanning microscope, newly classified species glow ...