The ocean is home to a vast array of different animals, each with its own traits. These include different forms of mating, ...

Beds of Bathymodiolus mussels provide important habitat for other deep-sea critters, including sea stars, scaleworms and limpets. NOAA Ocean Exploration. The deep sea is the large ...

We opened a window into our country’s biodiversity only to find there are so many more windows left to be opened.” ...

For many years, the deep ocean has been seen as a nutrient-poor environment where microbes living in the water survive on ...

More than a million giant skate eggs are discovered incubating in the heat of an underwater Pacific Ocean volcano.

The creature was found among 28 new species in Argentina's deep sea.

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 ...

A deep-sea mining test shows ecosystem damage can begin immediately, with more than one-third of seafloor animals lost in a single pass.

Thousands of strangers on the internet just collectively named a deep-sea creature that lives on sunken wood at the bottom of ...

A newly discovered deep-sea creature has become an unlikely Internet star. After appearing in a popular YouTube video, a rare ...