The ocean is home to some of the strangest-looking creatures in the world. It seems that the deeper you go, the stranger the ...

The vast array of organisms in the deep sea remains a mystery to humans. Now, marine biologists can add one more puzzle to the list. A collection of odd materials was discovered nearly four miles ...

The deep sea is home to some of the weirdest creatures on Earth, from ghostly elder fish to carnivorous harp sponges. Sometimes, scientists discover more humble creatures that are so tiny that they go ...

Researchers spotted a shark off the Antarctic Peninsula for the first time ever, swimming at a depth so deep the sun could not reach it.

MBARI's advanced underwater technology is revealing the remarkable species that thrive in the deep sea. In 2019, MBARI researchers encountered an unfamiliar pink snailfish swimming just above the ...

The deep ocean is about as mysterious as the depths of outer space, and it's home to some bizarre finds, from tiny angelic creatures to giant worms.

Sharks are ancient creatures—even older than land dinosaurs —and they’ve evolved to swim in almost all the world’s ocean waters. Still, many scientists suspected that the animals didn’t live in ...

Invasive sea lampreys prey on most species of large Great Lakes fish such as lake trout, brown trout, lake sturgeon, lake whitefish, ciscoes, burbot, walleye and catfish. These species are crucial to ...

In 2024, researchers made a groundbreaking discovery in the Pacific Ocean's Clarion-Clipperton Zone, finding that oxygen increased over two days to more than three times the background concentration ...

The scientists examined the lineages of two groups of bivalves—marine invertebrates that include clams, oysters, mussels, and ...