The specimens were the bycatch of a fishing vessel in the South China Sea, which researchers later bought to study.

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 ...

A calving iceberg exposed a region that never before had been seen by human eyes, revealing a vibrant, thriving ecosystem ...

A hidden ecosystem of giant sea spiders, octopuses, and other stunning sea creatures shows how life can flourish even when ...

Iceberg A-84 broke off from Antarctica and revealed a thriving community of sea creatures ... "Many deep-sea dwellers are adapted to unchanging conditions found in their environment, so they ...

Published March 14 | Read More | A new species of sea cucumber, Amphigymnas ganquani, was discovered in the South China Sea by a robot named “discovery.” This “fragile” creature ...

No human had explored the deep sea there before ... will be able to identify dozens of new species from the expedition. “We ...

Until now, very little is known about creatures living ... Ronne ice shelf. It found a rich biodiversity hosting hints of several new species unknown to science. Deep-sea ecosystems typically ...

“Based on the size of the animals ... they also discovered several new species during the expedition. The team was originally in the “remote region” of the Bellingshausen Sea to study ...