Glowing in the dark can help a jelly disguise itself as zooplankton while seeking its own prey. These creatures of the sea ...

First-of-its-kind deep-sea ‘ghost’ shark with rare genetic disorder caught - Rare angular rough shark caught off Albanian ...

The Schmidt Ocean Institute shared footage from it's Chile Margin expedition on Instagram that shows a sparkling deep-sea ...

Scientists have discovered a rare 'ghost' shark with a rare disorder at the bottom of the ocean. The deep-sea creature had a ...

Microbes unable to break down carbohydrates belong to a newly identified family of marine bacteria. A German-American ...

Living in the dark at crushing depths, the animals below are rarely seen by human ... Here, surely, is good circumstantial evidence for deep-sea angling." ...

Ahead of them, the dark landscape was broken up by spots ... and the nutrients pumped into the water support a large variety of sea creatures, including shrimp, according to the institution ...

Animal life is flourishing underneath the seafloor according to a new study of deep-sea hydrothermal vents, suggesting this mysterious landscape has complex ecosystems. Hydrothermal vents are ...

Sunlight penetrates no farther than a few hundred feet down, leaving the deep-sea floor as dark as the deepest cave. With no sunlight, there are no plants; all vent life belongs to the animal kingdom.

They are dark but dramatically colored with ... In addition to fish, they eat crabs, shellfish, squid, small animals, ducks, gulls, and carrion. Steller's sea eagles do not occur in large numbers ...

A sea star adheres to a metallic nodule The animals have evolved in isolation over the course of millions of years in the cold, dark conditions of the ocean floor. The vast majority (90% ...