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

While operating the deep-sea robot nearly 7,000 feet below the surface, the machine’s camera captured a creature that ...

Researchers from the University of Aukland got a chance sighting of an octopus hitching a ride on the back of a shark, which ...

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In the last ten years, at least 15 species have officially checked out, never to be seen again. It's ironic to think how ...

A remarkably complete plesiosaur fossil found in southern Germany is shedding light on the early evolution of these iconic ...

Tamil short-tail congers live on the “sandy bottom of shallow waters” and are “carnivores, mostly (feeding) on small ...

Blobfish, Psychrolutes phrictus. Emily Cecelia/Getty Images Blobfish are considered deep-sea species and are often found in cold, dark habitats between 1,970 and 3,940 feet deep in the Atlantic ...

The iguanas' 8,000-kilometer trip — one-fifth of the Earth’s circumference — is the longest made by a flightless land vertebrate.

This is the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem that begins 650 feet below the ocean surface and sustains life across our planet. It includes the twilight zone and the midnight zone, where strange and ...

Ocean Census has embarked on numerous expeditions—so far—with a sole aim: discovering new species in the "world's greatest ...