Far below the ocean surface, some deep-sea creatures evolve into enormous versions of their shallow-water relatives — a ...

A potentially undescribed siphonophore. (ROV SuBastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute) An oceanic expedition has turned up 31 new species from a vast, dimly lit habitat between the sunlit surface and the ...

The deep ocean is home to one of the strangest phenomena on Earth: bioluminescence. Scientists estimate that more than 75% of ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute A rare giant squid has been detected in deep-sea canyons off Western Australia through ...

(Gerard Soury/The Image Bank/Getty Images) In an abyssal chasm yawning deep beneath the Indian Ocean, a vast 'city of the dead' has slowly been growing in the frigid darkness. Along some 1,200 ...

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Rare 160-million-year-old sea spider fossils from Southern France look nearly identical to living species, revealing a body ...

Octopus, squid, and cuttlefish aid marine food webs and carbon storage, revealing how climate change reshapes oceans and ...

Discover the origin and purpose of the structures of living things, from why baboons have swollen bottoms to the ...

Scientists pulled 40,000 fossil spine fragments from the deep ocean floor and traced sea urchins living there for 104 million ...

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