A siphonophore—a colonial marine invertebrate related to the venomous stinging Portuguese Man-o-war—is scanned using Deep ...

Lionfish, mitten crabs and “sea vomit.” Meet eight marine species inadvertently brought to new territory that are taking the ...

The enormous deep-sea cousins of your garden’s pill bugs can go five years without food. A gene they pilfered from bacteria ...

The ocean’s hiding some deep secrets. An oceanic expedition off Brazil has discovered 31 otherworldly new critters, including ghostly invertebrates, animals living inside their own bodily fluids and ...

Far below the ocean surface, some deep-sea creatures evolve into enormous versions of their shallow-water relatives — a phenomenon known as deep-sea gigantism. In the freezing darkness thousands of ...

A decade after they vanished from the ocean, the discovery of this lost colony of sunflower sea stars offers new hope for California's kelp forests. A large red abalone next to an adult sunflower sea ...

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Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life. Tardigrades—a type of invertebrate ...

When we think of marine life, we usually picture colourful coral reefs or dense seaweed forests filled with fish and other critters. The ocean that comes to mind is the one touched by sunlight.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. It lives in a glass castle deep under the sea. It’s not a character from The Little ...

It’s tiny. It’s blue. And it has scientists awe-struck. A golf-ball-size octopus found on the deep seafloor off the Galápagos Islands is an entirely new species, scientists just announced. In July ...