The new species were found in the East China Sea, a body of water off the eastern coast of China, south of Japan and South ...

Scientists on an expedition to the South Sandwich Islands near Antarctica have recorded horrifying videos of parasitic ...

Researchers caught a close-up video of a flying sea pig (aka, a sea cucumber), and it has what looks like 50 tiny hands.

A shimmery deep-sea creature measuring almost 5 feet mysteriously washed ashore on an Oregon beach. Now, researchers get a ...

It’s a pretty appropriate name given where H. hades lives; the trench extends down to the hadal zone, itself named after ...

A rare anglerfish, usually found thousands of feet deep, has been discovered near the ocean surface, leaving scientists searching for answers. Could climate change, ocean currents, or rising ...

In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...

The land bridge created by mantle-driven uplift gave early primates and other animals opportunities to branch out.

Deep-sea mining isn’t a new idea. The HMS Challenger research expedition discovered polymetallic nodules—the metal lumps mining operations are now targeting in the Pacific—in the 1870s.

A recent poll commissioned by Greenpeace Norway found ... deep-sea mining industry to “gambling” with the ocean. Images by Elizabeth Claire Alberts/Mongabay. Hilde Ottesen Braut, the head of ...

Exploring the deep sea has always been akin to venturing ... is a stunning adaptation to their environment. Yeti Crab: A Creature of Colossal Proportions Yeti Crab. Image via Unsplash. Discovered near ...

New 'Shy' Fungus Found in Old-Growth ... Giant Clone of Seaweed in the Baltic Sea Mar. 4, 2025 — Researchers have discovered that what was previously thought to be a unique seaweed species ...