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

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

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 ...

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 ...

The cookiecutter shark is a small deep sea species that feeds by removing circular plugs of flesh from much larger animals. Its lips form a powerful suction seal, while serrated lower teeth and ...

The marine biologists of the Schmidt Ocean Institute are a busy bunch. Over the last few years, scientists aboard the ...

A dome-fronted submersible sinks beneath the waves off Indonesia, heading down nearly 1,000 meters in search of new species, plastic-eating microbes and compounds that could one day make medicines.

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

Japanese scientists confirm a new marine coral species, Corallizoanthus aureus, that glows in the dark and inhabits deep caves in the ocean.

A team of marine biologists from the Schmidt Ocean Institute carried out a scientific expedition in the South Atlantic Ocean, ...

Far below the reach of sunlight, the deep ocean has long been cast as a biological desert, a place where microbes eke out an ...