Marine biologists have found a new sea slug that is right at home in the ocean’s deep and dark midnight zone ... so unique ...

Unlike albinism, where there is a complete lack of melanin and the iris is red due to underlying blood vessels, leucistic ...

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

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

In 2022, researchers made a startling discovery in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench south of Japan. At a staggering depth of 8,336 ...

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 ...

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

“To our knowledge, it is the first time that animal life has been discovered in the ocean crust,” Sabine Gollner, a marine biologist at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea ...

Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. Like a deep-sea modern dancer, a rarely seen animal undulates in the dark, its vast arms swirling slowly through the water. You’ve just ...