The ocean is home to some of the creepiest animals out there. It feels like the deeper you go in the water, the stranger and ...

A goblin shark, one of the ocean’s rarest and strangest predators, was spotted near the Canary Islands for the first time.

The "deep sea" isn't a technical term, but it can still be very descriptive when grouping different species. The ocean is ...

An ancient shark older than forests still glides through deep oceans today. Its strange teeth, slow life cycle, and dinosaur-era origins reveal how early seas shaped survival across mass extinctions.

The rush to mine the deep ocean is no longer a distant possibility. It’s here, thanks to global demand for minerals like cobalt and nickel rising, meaning governments and corporations are eyeing the ...

The ocean is full of surprises, and scientists are still finding creatures that seem almost unreal. From tiny reef animals to ...

The finds were made during a 2022 deep-sea expedition off Western Australia’s Gascoyne coast in the Gascoyne Marine Park Researchers say the discoveries reveal how little is known about deep-sea life ...

Locals have likened the shark that washed up on the Spanish beach to popular characters from the How To Train Your Dragon species - but experts say it appears to have met a tragic end ...

Most of what’s known about the deep-sea painted swellshark, was learned when researchers found specimens in the fish markets of Bali and Lombok, Indonesia back in the early 2000s. However, a recent ...

A little-known shark has earned the unsettling nickname "vampire" due to its unusual feeding behavior. Observations suggest ...

The Pygmy Shark (Euprotomicrus bispinatus), the world’s second smallest shark species and one of the species with a high overlap with proposed deep sea mining. The habitat of thirty species of sharks, ...

Researchers from Australia’s national science agency have identified two previously unknown marine species — a minuscule porcelain crab and a bioluminescent lantern shark — discovered off the Gascoyne ...