Their residence attracts shrimp, fish and many other creatures. These deep-sea oases are just some of many areas of the ocean floor that scientists are only beginning to explore, discovering new ...

The open ocean and the far ... ashore after a life spent at sea. Helm, then a fledgling marine biologist about to begin her PhD research, recognized the organism as a by-the-wind sailor (Velella ...

I mean, you never know what lives in the water beneath your feet. The ocean holds many bizarre deep-sea monsters. As you dive 140 meters underwater, you might see a megamouth shark. Sure ...

Scientists onboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research ... Dr. Seuss’s Truffula Trees, along with sea spiders, icefish, octopuses. Some of the creatures that are new species, and many ...

A “flower”-like sea creature caught the ... in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean, the study said. The new species was identified ...