Strandings of these jellyfish-like animals, sometimes called "by-the-wind sailors," usually mean spring is coming ...

A team of marine scientists has uncovered what appears to be a previously unknown species of sea squirt during a deep-sea ...

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet—where creatures glow and life survives under crushing pressure. This is the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem that begins 650 feet ...

In her survey, Berners reports that it was widely known that in Cumbria some 34 men, ten women and 16 children had been killed by a huge, pike-headed fish, the “dregpike”. Allegedly almost three-times ...

The marine mammal — an infrequent visitor to the shores of the Emerald Isle — was spotted in the Waterford Estuary on the ...

Iceberg A-84 broke off from Antarctica and revealed a thriving community of sea creatures underneath ... below the surface of the ocean. "Normally, deep-sea ecosystems get their nutrients from ...

Until now, very little is known about creatures living beneath ... hosting hints of several new species unknown to science. Deep-sea ecosystems typically rely on nutrients trickling from the ...

In February, researchers from conservation organisation Condrik Tenerife were about two kilometres off the coast of Tenerife Island, looking for sharks, when they caught sight of something much ...

In the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich rocks ... but researchers seldom see the same creature twice. There are "huge numbers of rare species", said Horton, ...

Scientists have discovered a “thriving ecosystem” of strange deep sea creatures on a newly exposed seafloor after an iceberg broke off near the Antarctic. The area, which had never before been ...