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 ...

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 ...

Images of a baby colossal squid this week reminds us that the deep sea is an almost inexhaustible source of awe.

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 ...

“The deep sea is a vast 3D space, and looking for specific animals there is tricky, especially when they are probably actively trying to avoid us!” Scientists still don’t know much about ...

"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 ...