Deep below the surface of the ocean in the South China Sea, a robot named “discovery” searched the seafloor for life. Faxian, ...

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The deep sea, covering approximately 65% of Earth's surface, has long been considered a biological desert. In this extreme ...

Dive into the depths of the ocean and discover the most bizarre sea creatures that have evolved over billions of years.

Researchers descended more than 35,700 feet (10,900 meters) below sea level to collect biological samples that revealed ...

Footage of a submersible capturing some intriguing footage of a pre-historic sea animal has resurfaced, as it was making its ...

The mysterious deep sea creature the Greenland shark swims around in the 'midnight zone, and new footage has revealed it in ...

Hidden in the abyss of the Atacama Trench, Dulcibella camanchaca reveals itself as a unique predator adapted to the darkness.

The sea cucumber’s color is “unique,” researchers said, and its smaller number of tentacles (15 compared to 18 found in other related species) sets the animal apart. The species earns its name from a ...

Organisms in the deep sea rely on gravity flows to lay down sediment and then make burrows beneath the seafloor, according to a new study.

Something unusual is happening in the oceans. Strange deep-sea creatures are surfacing, and marine life is behaving ...