These spheres from the abyss conceal creatures with startling biology.

Scientists pulled 40,000 fossil spine fragments from the deep ocean floor and traced sea urchins living there for 104 million ...

The ocean is one of the least explored places on Earth, yet it is home to some of the most incredible life forms ever ...

Rare 160-million-year-old sea spider fossils from Southern France look nearly identical to living species, revealing a body ...

Scientists spotted the enigmatic creatures in 2019 and again in 2024, marking the first time they've been observed alive in the wild. The sightings drastically expand the animals' known geographic and ...

As much as Steven Spielberg likes aliens, he seems to prefer holding them at arm’s length. The creatures in Close Encounters ...

Before recent findings, goblin sharks were only recorded after being hooked on a fishing line and hauled to the surface, ...

The palm-size creature was spotted and collected during a research expedition more than a decade ago, but scientists have just identified it as a previously undescribed species ...

A potentially undescribed siphonophore. (ROV SuBastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute) An oceanic expedition has turned up 31 new species from a vast, dimly lit habitat between the sunlit surface and the ...

Marine biologist Alan Jamieson had given up on seeing a goblin shark in its underwater home. After all, they live thousands of feet underwater in total darkness and since being discovered over 100 ...

A decade after they vanished from the ocean, the discovery of this lost colony of sunflower sea stars offers new hope for ...

The bottom of the ocean has barely been explored, but every journey to the deep reveals wondrous new lifeforms. As underwater mining gains momentum, we risk destroying one of the Earth’s last great wi ...