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

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

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

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

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

Far below the surface of the South China Sea, a creature with “glass-like” skin was discovered. Greg Nerantzakis via Unsplash Deep below the surface of the ocean in the South China Sea, a ...

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

The aquatic ecosystem has always been interesting to humans. It is one territory where we can not survive for long and its ...

But his newest find, a smooth lumpsucker, has stolen the spotlight. Perched on the railing of his ship, the fish’s swollen, almost cartoonish form has ignited a firestorm of reactions online. This ...

Scientists have discovered a “thriving ecosystem” of strange deep sea creatures on a newly exposed seafloor after an iceberg broke off near the Antarctic. At such a critical moment in US history, we ...