The ocean is full of surprises, and scientists are still finding creatures that seem almost unreal. From tiny reef animals to ...

The Texas coastline is seeing a rare and unusual sight: thousands of mysterious sea creatures washing ashore after what ...

The fish was found at 200 to 2,000 meters below the surface. At least 16 types of recently discovered deep-sea fish are among the darkest creatures ever found, according to a study published Thursday.

For all of humanity’s ventures to outer space, we’ve yet to see 99.999% of the deep-sea floor. In the latest subaquatic news, researchers discovered some 4,000 marine species, 88% of which were new ...

The La Jolla-based Scripps Institution of Oceanography is no stranger to getting calls from the public with questions about marine species found along local shores. Some callers wonder what something ...

Researchers inside a deep-sea vehicle collected sea cucumbers from the seafloor, then discovered two new species. Jong Marshes via Unsplash Off the western coast of Australia, the Wallaby-Zenith ...

A new species was found on commercial scallop farms in southern China, researchers said. Zhang, et al (2025) Ecology and Evolution In the Beibu Gulf of the South China Sea, an expansive grid of tied ...

Researchers in Hawaii discovered four new species of sponge. Getty Images/iStockphoto Researchers in Hawaii used structures that mimic coral reefs to study aquatic life — and they found four new ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. This year, jellyfish have made big news. The 5-foot-wide lion’s mane jelly ...

A mining-machine test on the deep-ocean floor resulted in species diversity declining by roughly 32% in the tracks of the mining equipment. Researchers worked in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone ( CCZ) ...

Along the coast of the South China Sea in Vietnam, bọ biển is on the menu. Bọ biển, or “sea bugs,” are large isopods that have come to rival lobsters in “quality of the flesh” as a sought-after ...