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 ...
Scientists discovered sea creatures in the Pacific Ocean's Abyssal Plains, including transparent sea cucumbers and pink sea ...
The deep sea is the largest living space on Earth, but many of the animals and habitats far beneath the ocean's surface ...
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 ...
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 ...
This eel-like fish lives on the seabed over 300 feet below the surface where it feasts on dead animals and protects itself ...
Scientists have discovered that colonies of gelatinous sea animals swim through the ocean in giant corkscrew shapes using coordinated jet propulsion, an unusual kind of locomotion that could ...
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 ...
Some of these fish perform obligate parasitism, in which males attach to—and then fuse bodies with—the much-larger females ...
Scientists found a multicolored animal with spiky skin perched on plants in Ecuador and discovered a new species, a study said. Photos from JPRP and ZL via Reyes-Puig, Yánez-Muñoz, Libke ...