It took nearly 25 years for biologists to discover that a swimming and glowing organism in the ocean’s midnight zone was ...

Most sea slugs use their raspy tongues to feed on prey that is attached to the seafloor. Instead, Bathydevius caudactylus ...

Scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute identified an intriguing new deep sea species off of California.

In this desolate environment, one creature brings the pizzazz. An international team of researchers organized through the ...

These plumes of sediment would likely disrupt deep sea creatures’ ability to swim, breathe, find marine snow to eat, and ...

Deep-sea researchers have discovered a strange glowing sea slug off the coast of California that lives in the water column — ...

Most nudibranchs, colourful and ornate sea slugs, live in shallow waters ... so it was very surprising to find a nudibranch ...

Deep-sea microbes consume alkanes, reducing oceanic and atmospheric pollution, and a new study reveals they utilize a unique ...

The recent project has deep sea researchers using a 7,055-pound robotic explorer named ROV SuBastian to roam and document the ...

Last week, Scripps Institution of Oceanography PhD candidate Alison Laferriere found the deceased 9.5-foot specimen at ...

The head of a dead, deep-sea oarfish washed up on Grand View Beach in Encinitas is shown on Nov. 7, 2024. Ben Frable, manager ...

A research team has discovered two remarkable species of bacteria in the tissue of two deep-sea corals from the Gulf of Mexico. These previously unknown symbionts of the corals have an extremely small ...