Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but some sea creatures have it more diffcult than others. Check out our list of ...

The knotty sea spider, Pycnogonum litorale, is not actually a spider, but it does represent a significant early branch in the genetic family tree that includes spiders, as well as scorpions, ticks and ...

Hadal dive with manned submersible Fendouzhe. This figure is created to depict these remarkable ecosystems, forming a "river" of chemosynthetic communities at the bottom of hadal trench - painting the ...

When most of us picture the ocean, we imagine turquoise waves, colorful reefs, and shoals of darting fish. But that’s only the surface. Venture deeper, far below the last reach of sunlight, and you ...

More recently, companies have become interested in mining these deep-sea vents for their "massive sulfide deposits" or "gas hydrates," putting a clock on ecological research, according to a study ...

The anemone is part of a new species, genus and family, according to the study. Photo by Yanghong Yu via Unsplash A “strange” creature recorded in the deep waters off the coast of Japan represents an ...

The mysterious saga of two “out-of-habitat” whales has taken another strange turn, with the pair showing up in a tropical region where the species isn’t known to exist, according to trackers. “In an ...

Related: The Mariana Trench is home to some weird deep sea fish, and they all have the same, unique mutations Sunlight doesn't reach deep into the ocean, so life on and near the deep seafloor can't ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Some specimens of the jellyfish subspecies Botrynema brucei ellinorae have knobs on their bells ...

Like farmers, doctors, and teachers, different morphotypes of colonial animals have their own specialized roles. Carl Simpson, an Abbott Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Paleobiology, gives us ...