Six animals pulled from the deep ocean were so biologically distinct that researchers had to create entirely new taxonomic ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

A submarine named Ran was sent below the ice shelf in Antarctica and found some strange readings before disappearing entirely ...

Deep-sea researchers uncovered more than 500 million unique genes and a promising protein that could improve DNA sequencing technology.

When scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) discovered an odd-looking golden sphere while scouring the ocean floor during a 2023 expedition, they never anticipated ...

A glass squid filmed at 1,725 meters in the Colorado-Rawson submarine canyon. (ROV SuBastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) In the pitch-dark gloom beneath the South Atlantic Ocean off the ...

When we think of marine life, we usually picture colourful coral reefs or dense seaweed forests filled with fish and other critters. The ocean that comes to mind is the one touched by sunlight.