An expedition records 29,556 animals in the abyssal trenches and reveals how they survive the pressure and total darkness.

The deep-sea's midnight zone, a realm of crushing pressure and absolute darkness, harbors extraordinary creatures. These ...

Look no further than the depths of earth’s oceans to discover mind-blowing creatures that look like they come from another ...

A rare Indian octopus squid, Taningia silasii, has been discovered in the Arabian Sea, marking a significant find for ...

New research shows how deep-sea fish evolved unique body shapes depending on depth and habitat, revealing surprising ...

The deep ocean is home to the largest ecosystem on Earth, but we’ve only explored a tiny portion of it. Despite the enormity ...

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. Reading time: Reading time 3 minutes Animals living in one of ...

Museum researchers reconstructed the evolutionary history of stony corals over the past 460 million years, providing insights ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The bottom of the ocean is cold, dark, and under extreme pressure. It is not a place suited to the physiology of us surface dwellers: At ...

There’s no such thing as out of sight, out of mind when it comes to our ocean. As we celebrate the role that our ocean plays in keeping us healthy, new research about the ocean twilight zone, the ...

Drilling for minerals deep in the ocean could have immense consequences on the tiny animals at the core of the vast ocean food web — and ultimately affect fisheries and the food we find on ...