A mischievous sea cucumber and 56 other newly discovered marine species are making a splash in the South Atlantic Ocean. The ...

To survive the deep ocean, sea creatures have all kinds of adaptations that give them alien-like appearances, such as huge eyes and needle-like teeth.

The ocean’s deepest reaches harbor some of the most alien and terrifying life forms on Earth. Far below where sunlight fades to eternal darkness, creatures have evolved in ways that seem to defy ...

The ancestors of the giant isopod Bathynomus jamesi—a seafloor-dwelling creature that resembles a huge pill bug—acquired the ...

When scientists at Germany’s Senckenberg Natural History Museum asked the internet to help name a newly discovered deep-sea creature, more than 8,000 suggestions poured in. The tiny mollusk in ...

A newly described species of ghost shark, Rhinochimaera costaricana, has been identified from deep waters off Costa Rica using both physical characteristics and genetic evidence.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Graneledone octopus, a suspected new species, moves across the seafloor during a deep-sea ocean expedition off the coast of ...

As anyone who’s stayed up well past their bedtime knows, catching a taxi or Uber home can be a godsend, and now recent research shows that even some deep sea animals appreciate the value of bumming a ...

For all of humanity’s ventures to outer space, we’ve yet to see 99.999% of the deep-sea floor. In the latest subaquatic news, researchers discovered some 4,000 marine species, 88% of which were new ...

Deep in the abyss of the Pacific Ocean, the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone is home to the world's largest accumulation of ...

In "Deep Blue Contact," there is fun to be had even after returning from an exploration. It is the time to open the ...

To capture its prey, the Tiburonia granrojo does not use stinging tentacles, as do the majority of jellies; it deploys long fleshy arms. Little else is currently know ...