This previously unknown symbiotic relationship helps keep methane—a major greenhouse gas—trapped in the ocean.

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Deep in the ocean's dark depths lurk bizarre and terrifying creatures evolved over centuries. Anglerfish use glowing lures to ...

In this latest instalment of Future Chronicles, an imagined history of future inventions, we journey to 2035, when undersea living became a reality. Rowan Hooper tells us how it happened ...

Purchasing seafood isn't just expensive, it's also loaded with questions around sustainability and health. This deep sea fish ...

Scientists say they have discovered three previously unknown, unnamed species of sea spider off the U.S. West Coast that ...

Spider-like creatures living near methane seeps on the seafloor appear to cultivate and consume microbial species on their bodies that feed on the energy-rich gas. This expands the set of organisms ...

The island's climate change minister told leaders at the United Nations Ocean Conference that the extraction of metals from ...

The Bajau tribe lives in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Philippines. They have larger spleens for deep diving. Bajau people dive to ...

Here's how Jorge the sea turtle prepared for the improbable journey—decades after he was found tangled in a fishing net off ...

Scientists on a research expedition in the Southern Ocean captured the first footage of a living Gonatus antarcticus squid. The colorful, three-foot squid species was only known to scientists ...

Eight legs, thousands of feet below... and one very unique discovery! Here's the story behind how certain sea spiders use ...