The ecosystem is home to seamounts, hydrothermal vents, deep-sea trenches and species found only in its freezing water. They are called the South Sandwich Islands, and researchers with the Schmidt ...
Scientists have captured stunning video of a dinner-plate-size sea spider crawling on the seafloor off the South Sandwich ...
A harrowing bit of footage has resurfaced, capturing the moment where a camera was gripped and attacked by a creature in the ...
Life down there plays by a completely different set of rules, with creatures that have adapted in ways we can barely imagine.
In the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich rocks coveted by miners—and huge numbers ...
They're tiny, blobby, butt-shaped, and glow in the dark. What the heck are they? Scientists are still figuring them out.
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Inside deep-sea coral in the Pacific, an iridescent creature waits in ambush ... The bristle worms, formally known as ...
Some of the creatures that call the depths of the WZFZ home were undiscovered until 2017, and now, a manned deep-sea mission ... collected holothuroids, also known as sea cucumbers, from the ...