These rare deep-sea fish have a horrifying appearance with large mouths and lots of teeth to catch prey in the deep ocean.

Traces of organisms detected in sediments from 7.5 kilometers below the ocean surface reveal how organisms living in the deep sea are engineering their own environments. Analyses of sediment cores ...

Among the myriad creatures that populate our ocean, some stand out as having an outsized impact on the marine environment—shaping and maintaining habitats that themselves sustain countless other forms ...

Jara and his team were able to swim alongside and capture this rare sighting of the black seadevil, a species that usually inhabits the inky depths of the ocean ...

The animals are not aliens, but giant pile worms, large marine worms that are typically found on the seafloor, but will swarm at the water’s surface to mate, Benjamin Neal, biologist and assistant ...

A deep-sea creature only recorded alive on one other occasion has been seen for what's believed to be the first time in broad ...

A scary-looking creature with “devil” in its name was spotted close to the surface off Tenerife, a Spanish island.

This is only the second time the species has been recorded while alive. “I thought it was A.I.,” says fish biologist Kory Evans.

As the rumor goes, an oceanic area off the Western coast of Mexico is a "Jacuzzi of Despair," a pool of oceanic water that kills anything that enters it. A January 2025 Reddit pos ...

Far removed from the more familiar marine creatures like dolphins and coral reefs, the deep sea is home to a menagerie of extraordinary species that seem straight out of science fiction. Get ready to ...

A sea creature ... these animals to stay resilient during a changing environment. It’s not all doom and gloom, it’s time to get to work.” Paloma Chavez is a reporter covering real-time ...