A newly discovered deep-sea creature has become an unlikely Internet star. After appearing in a popular YouTube video, a rare ...

The Senckenberg Ocean Species Alliance (SOSA), in partnership with the scientific publisher Pensoft Publishers and science ...

The marine biologists of the Schmidt Ocean Institute are a busy bunch. Over the last few years, scientists aboard the research vessel Falkor (too) have spotted rare Antarctic squid, discovered ...

The chiton was first discovered in 2024 in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench at a depth of 5,500 meters. Ferreiraella populi belongs ...

The ocean is home to some of the creepiest animals out there. It feels like the deeper you go in the water, the stranger and ...

The elusive deep-sea creature typically lives over 1,000 meters below sea level, but was seen around 250 meters below sea level ...

A new deep-sea species now carries a scientific name chosen by the internet, and researchers say the crowdsourced approach ...

Organisms in the deep sea rely on gravity flows to lay down sediment and then make burrows beneath the seafloor, according to a new study. The Axial Seamount is gonna blow, scientists say. The only ...

A deep-sea mining test shows ecosystem damage can begin immediately, with more than one-third of seafloor animals lost in a single pass.

A deep‑sea mission off Argentina captured a rare phantom jellyfish and revealed the largest‑known Bathelia candida reef and ...

Deep-sea mining targets mineral deposits on the ocean floor, typically at depths of 3,000–6,000 meters. Most attention focuses on polymetallic nodules—potato-sized rocks lying on abyssal plains—and on ...