Scientists are a little closer to understanding what goes on deep beneath the surface of our oceans.

Some are terrifying... others are so bizarre, lurking in the depths of the ocean. Many otherworldly deep-sea creatures, though, are so beautiful and mysterious that you won't believe they exist. Even ...

Marine animals living in the cold, dark depths of the ocean are interconnected across the world by a hidden “superhighway”, a groundbreaking new study suggests. The research, published in the journal ...

Distinguished by its unusual morphology and a reproductive system based on something called "sexual parasitism," the anglerfish represents a study in how life adapts to severe environmental ...

Director Ridley Scott may have just found his next alien. An extremely deep-dwelling and spooky-looking sea creature was discovered inside a vast trench off South American shores. This discovery, ...

Ted Judah went diving off McAbee Beach in Monterey Bay when he caught sight of a 'silvery knife blade undulating thing,' ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Although most dissolved inorganic carbon fixation occurs at the ocean’s surface, some of that fixation budget originates from the ...

Beneath the ocean's surface lies a world of perpetual darkness, home to some of Earth's most bizarre and fascinating creatures. These deep-sea inhabitants have evolved extraordinary adaptations to ...

To capture its prey, the Tiburonia granrojo does not use stinging tentacles, as do the majority of jellies; it deploys long fleshy arms. Little else is currently know ...

Organisms in the deep sea rely on gravity flows to lay down sediment and then make burrows beneath the seafloor, according to a new study. Reading time 3 minutes Animals living in one of Earth’s most ...