but most animals "bioluminesce," flashing like fireflies. They turn on headlights to see food or attract mates; anglerfish dangle wormlike glowing appendages to lure prey. Some deep-sea squid ...

Head down deep enough into the ocean and you might just find the lord of the underworld – except it turns out he’s a bit more ...

Scientists on an expedition to the South Sandwich Islands near Antarctica have recorded horrifying videos of parasitic ...

A shimmery deep-sea creature measuring almost 5 feet mysteriously washed ashore on an Oregon beach. Now, researchers get a ...

Thanks to some clever engineering, and a little bit of luck, we are finding out that “deep-sea animals are really fragile, and really beautiful.” ...

Therefore sea pigs - and other deep-sea creatures - can look very different on the surface than they do in their natural habitat. The sea pig, for example, is typically more uniform when crawling ...

An expedition spotted a baby of the species in the South Sandwich Islands. This cephalopod can grow to more than 20 feet and ...

Armed with lab equipment and two months of food and clothes, around 60 researchers boarded the RSV Nuyina icebreaker ship for its first scientific voyage in March. They are taking part in the Denman ...

Iceberg A-84 broke off from Antarctica and revealed a thriving community of sea creatures underneath ... below the surface of the ocean. "Normally, deep-sea ecosystems get their nutrients from ...

"The deep sea is the largest habitat that we have on the planet," Taylor said. "If we're being super selfish, a lot of animals in marine environments are really useful to humans. There are ...