Scientists from Argentina’s national research council completed a 20-day submarine expedition in the summer of 2025 that ...

Twenty-four species of deep-sea crustaceans that had never been documented before have been formally described from the ...

“Imagine knowing a species exists, but never having seen it alive.” ...

By Marta Serafinko June 19 (Reuters) - A pill bug dwelling under a garden pot curls its body into a tiny armored ball as self ...

The enormous deep-sea cousins of your garden’s pill bugs can go five years without food. A gene they pilfered from bacteria ...

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

Benji Jones is a senior environmental correspondent at Vox, covering biodiversity loss and climate change. Before joining Vox, he was a senior energy reporter at Business Insider. Benji previously ...

A thriving ecosystem has been discovered in the last few decades in a region which was previously deemed empty. Neil and Sam ...

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 ...

It's the oldest, largest, and deepest graveyard of whale falls ever found—and it's been feeding life for millions of years.

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 ...

More than 10,000 feet deep in the ocean, the seafloor is covered with what look like dark, lumpy potatoes. These polymetallic nodules, as they're known, take millions of years to form, slowly ...