"In each burrow move, the animal disappears from view by retreating into its burrow, then a small mound appears a short ...

Half a century after the world's first deep sea mining tests picked nodules from the seafloor off the US east coast, the ...

In haunting footage captured about 1,604 feet (489 meters) under the sea, cameras captured the tubular crustaceans latched onto the fish’s back. Though the parasites’ presence might trigger your gag ...

Scientists in the South China Sea scooped up some muck, sifted through it and found the “rarely encountered” animal. Take a ...

Shocking new footage shows a pair of bloodsucking parasites latched onto the head of a deep-sea rattail fish. In the video, which the Schmidt Ocean Institute shared in a Facebook post, two ...

Surprising footage reveals parasites attached to the head of a deep-sea fish. These crustaceans, visible in a video shared by the Schmidt Ocean Institute, feed on their host's bodily fluids. The video ...

In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...

LURKING beneath the ocean’s surface are a host of terrifying creatures most humans will only see in their nightmares. Yet, ...

Marine scientists are finding ways to learn more about the most elusive species that live in the deepest depths of the ocean ...

Watching the deep sea can often feel like sci-fi. But a recent video from the ocean’s depths has stunned even seasoned scientists — showing two parasites firmly attached to a fish’s head ...

Getty Images/iStockphoto Aboard a research vessel in the South China Sea, scientists scooped up some deep-sea muck and began ... several unusual-looking marine worms. Researchers took a closer ...