A new species of crab was discovered living 3,000 feet under the ocean's surface, according to a new study. Researchers exploring the area in a submersible in March 2021 discovered the crab and ...
Off the coast of Japan, a “long”-tailed sea creature swam through the depths — or at least, it tried to. Something caught the “large” animal and pulled it to the surface. It turned out to be a new ...
Transparent sea cucumbers, bowl-shaped sponges, and pink sea pigs are some of the fascinating animals discovered during a ...
The only sightings of the animals so far have come from corpses or creatures dragged up from the depths While scientists ...
Scientists boarded a submersible and plunged into the depths of the South China Sea. Thousands of feet below the surface, they encountered a “large” spine-covered creature. It turned out to be a new ...
Geobiologists reported a 550 million-year-old sea sponge that had been missing from the fossil record. The discovery sheds new light on a conundrum that has stumped zoologists and paleontologists for ...
Water covers over 70% of the Earth’s surface, and most of that water is held in oceans. Some truly bizarre fish, squids, and crabs have been discovered in these oceans—all evolutionary bets ...
This eel-like fish lives on the seabed over 300 feet below the surface where it feasts on dead animals and protects itself ...
A 45-day research expedition to the Clarion Clipperton Zone between Mexico and Hawaii in the eastern Pacific Ocean discovered the existence of transparent sea cucumbers, bowl-shaped sponges and ...
Scientists found a “dragon”-like sea animal with fangs off the coast of New Zealand and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Marcos Paulo Prado via Unsplash Off the coast of New ...
A common type of ocean algae plays a significant role in producing a massively abundant compound that helps cool the Earth's ...
Some of these fish perform obligate parasitism, in which males attach to—and then fuse bodies with—the much-larger females ...