Researchers and crewmembers aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute's Falkor (too), "seized upon the moment" and were richly ...

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

In fact, all our favorite marine animals – sharks and dolphins, turtles and rays, and all those pretty colored fish in our ...

Researchers took advantage of a rare chance to explore a new expanse of seafloor exposed by the breakup of an Antarctic ice ...

Two tiny sea creatures with translucent bodies found on the California coast are both new species. They’re sea slugs, part of the Dotidae family. And while they’re small — measuring less than a ...

A team of scientists has created a new guide to advance standards for collecting and cataloging DNA from marine species, ...

Thousands of new species are found each year. Here are three of our most recent eye-catching stories. The new species was ...

A new study in Cell reveals that species living miles beneath the ocean’s surface have independently evolved the same genetic ...

Eighteen months after having a cesarean birth, a "dinner plate-sized" surgical tool was found inside a woman's abdomen in Auckland, New Zealand.

Selenobrachys ustromsupasius was discovered on Romblon Island and is not known to exist anywhere else in the world, according to the study. The ustromsupasius tarantula was found at night near the ...

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

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