They say just 0.001 percent of the deep ocean has been directly observed, representing a speck on our planet that’s just larger than Rhode Island. It’s hardly surprising, then, that when we do take a ...

The deep sea is a dark, cold place. It's just a few degrees above freezing, subject to immense pressure, and beyond the reach ...

Unfortunately, as far as the Mediterranean is concerned, it would not be wrong to say that “not a single inch of it is clean.” ...

New research shows why some shelly critters flourished in the ocean’s harshest habitats — and others didn’t Jack Tamisiea Beds of Bathymodiolus mussels provide important habitat for other deep-sea ...

The ocean is full of some incredibly odd creatures. It feels like the further you go down, the stranger and more alien-like they become. With so many interesting creatures, it makes you wonder, what ...

Somewhere in the North Atlantic, more than a kilometer beneath its surface, a cold-water coral reef stretches across an ...

At the bottom of the world’s trenches, there’s a fish that shouldn’t exist. Here’s how it earned the title of the deepest-living fish on Earth. If you were to drop a camera into one of Earth’s ...

The deep sea is inhabited by many creatures that are unlike any other in the world, and the coffinfish is certainly one of the strangest. Dubbed the sea toad, this unusual fish is part of the group of ...

A barnacle evolved into a parasite and drills into sharks in the deep waters of Norway to feed and survive in silence.