Biology professor Shana Goffredi calls these new curious creatures “extremely adorable” — although arachnophobes may disagree ...

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

Deep below the surface of the ocean, bacteria and critters that feed off nutrients spouting from hydrothermal vents met with ...

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

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 ...

A robotic explorer filmed the deep-sea worm as part of Schmidt Ocean Institute expedition of the Chile Margin Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013 ...

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 ...

The deep sea provides food to many species in shallower waters, like the swordfish, which dives up to 1,200 meters to feed. Related We’re protecting the ocean wrong ...

However, similar to humans camping out on a space station or on the surface of another planet for an extended period, there are some technical challenges for long-term deep-sea living. Experiments ...

“This is one of the planet’s true giants, living in one of our most pristine marine ecosystems,” says Kat Bolstad, ... “The deep sea is a vast 3D space, ...

It's so elusive, living in the deep ocean near Antarctica, that scientists didn't even know it existed until 100 years ago. Since then, fishermen have filmed a few dying colossal squids at the ...

Bizarre creatures like vampire squid and blobfish make their home in the dark, cold, depths of the deep sea, but most of this watery realm remains a complete mystery. That's because humans have ...