Imagine you are on some distant beach centuries ago and something huge emerges from the depths of the ocean. It has a longer body than most boats, lined with dozens of razor sharp teeth and eyes ...

Six animals pulled from the deep ocean were so biologically distinct that researchers had to create entirely new taxonomic ranks to classify them, from a new order of sponges to a new supergroup of ...

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Meet some of the 31 new species scientists have identified in what could be record time, off the coast of Brazil.

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Down in the twilight zone, this fish’s head is see-through for a reason ...

Fireflies, or “lightening bugs,” which is what I used to call them in Illinois, glow by a process known as “bioluminescence.” All living cells have some level of bioluminescence, each with their own ...

The strange, shiny discovery, retrieved from the ocean near Alaska in 2023, turned out to be part of an anemone, scientists said. By John Yoon Explorers sent a robot two miles under the ocean’s ...

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 ...

Imagine a shark so dark and soft-bodied it seems to dissolve into the blackness of the deep ocean. Or a fish with a rat-like tail, a plump nose and a big spine rising above its dorsal fin — a creature ...

Here's a sentence you probably didn't expect to read today: Thousands of strangers on the internet just collectively named a deep-sea creature that lives on sunken wood at the bottom of the ocean, and ...