The most transformative deep sea finding in a generation is not a single strange animal or a record-breaking trench, but ...

An ancient shark older than forests still glides through deep oceans today. Its strange teeth, slow life cycle, and ...

Far below the ocean’s surface, where sunlight disappears and pressure reaches crushing levels, some of the planet’s strangest ...

The deep sea also harbours some of the most intriguing and alien-like species in existence, yet for several centuries, these ...

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 ...

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 ...

These episodes of sudden light deprivation are slowly making several underwater organisms vulnerable to collapse.

Wildlife from the ocean's deepest trenches has a bit of a reputation on land, either due to their inherently alarming appearances or historic associations with bad tidings. However, The New York Times ...

Mesopelagic fish, long overlooked in ocean chemistry, are now proven to excrete carbonate minerals much like their shallow-water counterparts—despite living in dark, high-pressure depths. Using the ...

When an unfamiliar pink fish appeared more than 10,000 feet down in the outer reaches of Monterey Canyon in 2019, scientists with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute were able to document the ...