A transparent goby fish drifted through the darkness, its skeleton visible through paper-thin skin. Nearby, a sea slug wore yellow polka dots like a party dress, while an orange fish with bulging eyes ...

In the deep ocean, where sunlight never reaches, and food drifts down like confetti, survival is less about speed and more ...

A new study offers the first direct evidence that deep-dwelling mesopelagic fish, which account for up to 94% of global fish biomass, excrete carbonate minerals at rates comparable to shallow-water ...

Two deep-sea oarfish - nicknamed "doomsday fish" for their folkloric ties to earthquakes - washed up near the shoreline in ...

(FOX 5/KUSI) — Researchers exploring some of the deepest parts of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California have discovered three new species of deep-sea snailfish. The animals were documented by ...

Deep sea expedition off Caribbean islands captured images of unique corals sponges fish species never before documented ...

In 2025, scientists at the California Academy of Sciences officially named 72 new species — beetles, sea slugs, fish, flowering plants, and a bird that has been hiding in plain sight in one of the ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — A new species living at extreme ocean depths in Monterey Bay Canyon was discovered by researchers with Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI). Photographs and videos ...

Wildlife from the ocean's deepest trenches has a bit of a reputation on land, either due to their inherently alarming appearances or historic associations with bad tidings. However, The New York Times ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 18 (Reuters) - For more than a century, biology textbooks have stated that vision among vertebrates - people included - is built from two clearly defined cell types: rods for ...

At a fishing port in Taiwan, researchers bought four giant crustaceans hauled in as bycatch by a trawling vessel in the South China Sea. The deep-sea dwellers, resembling supersized woodlice, were ...