The deep ocean remains the least-explored environment on the planet, a cold, black world under crushing pressure where ...

Meet the “ghost fish,” a phantom of the abyss. Here’s how we found the first ever proof of its existence just a few years ago. The deep sea is a part of the world that very few humans get the chance ...

Cephalopods—the class of animals that comprises octopuses and squids—are ubiquitous throughout the ocean, including in the deep sea. However, researchers still don't know very much about the ...

Beneath the Coral Sea, a chain of extinct volcanoes rises more than 3,000 meters from the ocean floor — ancient, largely unmapped, and until recently, never formally studied in the modern era. These ...

Taxonomists examining tiny crustaceans from the deep central Pacific did more than add 24 species names. One animal differed ...

Deep under the surface of the South China Sea, a new species waits buried in the sand. Matt Hardy via Unsplash More than 4,000 feet below the ocean’s surface, a crack in the seafloor spews gases into ...

For an animal, surviving in the ocean’s deepest trenches requires remarkable adaptations: a gelatinous body that can withstand pressure, bioluminescent features to guide it, and a transparent ...