For centuries, sailors told terrifying stories of glowing sea serpents rising from the depths — enormous silvery creatures ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

The deep ocean is home to the largest ecosystem on Earth, but we’ve only explored a tiny portion of it. Despite the enormity of our seas, new species are discovered all the time thanks to ...

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 ...

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 ...

A deep-sea fish species with unusual cheek patterns has been discovered in the South China Sea after it was listed on online seafood markets. The fish has been named Branchiostegus sanae because its ...

Older than dinosaurs, these 8 ancient fish existed millions of years earlier and some still survive today in oceans, rivers ...

Thousands of feet down off the coast of Japan swam a pink sea creature with “dark yellow eggs.” Out of the shadows, something encircled it and pulled it to the surface. Sifting through their catch, ...