Documentation provides one of the most detailed observations of seafloor biodiversity and habitats at these depths ...

The gulper eel ( Saccopharynx lavenbergi), also called a pelican eel, is roughly a meter of tail and mouth. This unusual fish, the only species in the genus Eurypharynx, slinks through the water as ...

Scientists from Australia and Japan studying three trenches find ‘organisms have adapted strategies to filter things out of ...

The ocean covers more than 70 percent of Earth’s surface, yet we’ve explored less of it than we have the surface of the moon.

They say we know more about the surface of the Moon than we do about the bottom of the ocean, which is what made it so ...

NEW YORK (AP) — An underwater voyage has revealed a network of creatures thriving at the bottom of deep-sea ocean trenches. In these extreme environments, the crushing pressure, scant food and lack of ...

The body of the bumpy snailfish has a jelly-like consistency, which is essential for surviving in the deep sea. This gel-like ...

A 2022 deep-sea voyage discovered a glowing shark and a delicate, porcelain crab species off the coast of Western Australia.

What's the rarest ocean animal? Discover the rare and endangered ocean animals along with those that are rare because they're ...

The vast array of organisms in the deep sea remains a mystery to humans. Now, marine biologists can add one more puzzle to the list. A collection of odd materials was discovered nearly four miles ...

Earth's vast oceanic biodiversity remains largely unexplored, with only a fraction of an estimated two million total living ...