A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...

A riotous photography collection from a recent underwater mission off the coast of Chile shows new and fascinating deep-sea ...

Look, here comes a blobfish! This thrilling deep-sea fish was voted the world's ugliest animal by the Ugly Animal Preservation Society. But its jelly-like skin looks much more natural at 900 meters.

Dozens of these otherworldly creatures may be entirely new to science, never before documented by humans. The images and ...

Sunlight penetrates no farther than a few hundred feet down, leaving the deep-sea floor as dark as the deepest cave. With no sunlight, there are no plants; all vent life belongs to the animal kingdom.

Animals release carbon in the form of CO2 when they breathe, while plants take in that gas along ... the carbon in their carcasses can create a feast for deep-sea critters and also be buried ...

Inside deep-sea coral in the Pacific, an iridescent creature waits in ambush. Zhou Y, Zhang R, Shen C, Mao Q, Zhang M, Zhang ...

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet—where creatures glow and life survives under crushing pressure.

DR DIVA AMON:The deep sea is absolutely the last unexplored ... There are undiscovered plants and animals on earth and in the sea. Should we be trying to make sure we don’t destroy them even ...

The species were found exclusively “living in association with deep-sea glass sponges on seamounts in the northwest Pacific,” ...