Far below the reach of sunlight, the deep ocean has long been cast as a biological desert, a place where microbes eke out an ...
The marine biologists of the Schmidt Ocean Institute are a busy bunch. Over the last few years, scientists aboard the ...
A research team led by Occidental College has identified a previously unknown symbiosis; deep sea spiders that cultivate and feed on bacteria that oxidize methane. Three undescribed species of ...
The ocean is home to some of the creepiest animals out there. It feels like the deeper you go in the water, the stranger and ...
The Senckenberg Ocean Species Alliance (SOSA), in partnership with the scientific publisher Pensoft Publishers and science ...
A newly discovered deep-sea creature has become an unlikely Internet star. After appearing in a popular YouTube video, a rare ...
In an exciting fusion of science and creativity, marine biologists have identified a new deep-sea coral species named Iridogorgia chewbacca. Native to the tropical western Pacific Ocean, this coral ...
This is the third supergiant isopod species discovered in the South China Sea since 2017, researchers said. Photo by Huang M-C, Kawai T (2025) At a fishing port in Taiwan, researchers bought four ...
The chiton was first discovered in 2024 in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench at a depth of 5,500 meters. Ferreiraella populi belongs ...