Researchers at MBARI, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, have been exploring this hidden world for years. Using advanced technology and deep-sea robots, they’ve captured some of the most ...

A photographer encountered one of the Antarctic’s most elusive sea creatures, but all he had attached to his camera was a ...

The deep ocean just got more mysterious: 110+ new species discovered.

Researchers identified 24 new creatures and an entire superfamily of species in the Pacific, all while NOAA moves 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 ...

Beneath the neon lights of a laser-scanning microscope, newly classified species glow in vivid greens and oranges—a far cry from the pitch-black abyss of their natural ocean floor. Researchers have ...

The vast majority of our planet remains a complete mystery, hidden beneath miles of crushing water where sunlight never penetrates. In this eternal darkness, evolution has taken a path so bizarre that ...

Some animals are so unusual that they barely look real, and transparent creatures are among the strangest of them all. These ...

Octopuses are perhaps the most unusual creatures to have ever inhabited the ocean. Their soft body, eight arms, and high level of intelligence make th.

Marrying science and art, Jones partnered with two other artists — Alaska-based Kierstin Keller and Oregon-based Nilanjana ...

The recent ‘Beyond the Reef’ expedition revealed some of the sea creatures that inhabit the depths of Cayman's territorial waters.

Learn how researchers discovered a new superfamily living at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.