Twenty-four species of deep-sea crustaceans that had never been documented before have been formally described from the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, a vast stretch of the central Pacific Ocean floor where ...

Cephalopods—the class of animals that comprises octopuses and squids—are ubiquitous throughout the ocean, including in the deep sea. However, researchers still don't know very much about the ...

Discover the 25 craziest looking sea creatures, from transparent-headed fish to parasitic anglerfish. Explore the ocean's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The ocean is full of surprises, and scientists are still finding creatures that seem almost unreal. From tiny reef animals to ...

The ocean is still one of the biggest mysteries on Earth, and the deeper you go, the stranger it gets. Far below the surface, where sunlight can't reach, lives a world full of creatures that look more ...

Somewhere between Hawai’i and Mexico, in a stretch of Pacific Ocean floor so vast and dark that more than 90% of its species don’t even have names yet, researchers just discovered 24 creatures nobody ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Although most dissolved inorganic carbon fixation occurs at the ocean’s surface, some of that fixation budget originates from the ...

A deep-sea creepy creature has been spotted alive for the first time in its natural habitat. Researchers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa have documented the first two live observations of the ...

Scientists have uncovered plastic pollution in one of Earth's most isolated environments, challenging the long-held belief ...

Scientists have recorded a rare sighting of a shark in Antarctic waters. Jessica Kolbusz — an oceanographer at the Minderoo-University of Western Australia Deep-Sea Research Center — spotted an ...