A decade ago astrophysicists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), operated by the California ...

Humans know more about the moon than the deep sea—and correspondingly little about the animals in the Mariana Trench, the deepest point on Earth. This is not only because space exploration has long ...

Deep sea ecosystems are some of the most mysterious and unexplored regions of the Earth that reside more than 650 feet below ...

Unique creatures, odd animals and new species are discovered across the planet. Some are found lurking in remote corners of the world, while others have been hiding right under our noses. Learn more ...

Marine scientists have captured images of a mysterious tentacled creature that lives more than 3 miles below the ocean surface.

Interested in animals that eat kelp and seaweed? Read on to learn about 14 amazing marine animals that chow down on this ...

In 2023, researchers suggested that about 90% of species in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, are new to science: they found more than 5,000 deep-sea creatures they'd never seen before. In 2024 ...

According to a new study, just 0.001% of the deep seafloor ... such as sea spiders and some crustaceans can be found among hydrothermal vents. Water pressure is so immense that animals unsuited ...

The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, or JAMSTEC, unveiled on Monday a deep-sea explorer capable of reaching a depth of 8,000 meters, the most capable of such probes that the ...

Beneath the emotions of loss and reverence, and with a new pope in place, Rome continues its spiritual, cultural and ...

Some 370 million years ago, the great-great-great (and on and on and on) vertebrate ancestor of Homo sapiens—a weird-looking salamander creature ... known as “Dr. Deep Sea,” broke the ...