Deep beneath the ocean’s surface lies a world so strange that some of its inhabitants look more like creatures from a science fiction movie than animals living here on Earth. With no sunlight, ...

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Thanks to a yellow pigment that filters out sunlight, barreleyes can't be fooled by a common deep-sea camouflage tactic.

During a recent expedition aboard the research vessel David Packard, MBARI scientists encountered a rarely seen barreleye ...

The ocean’s deepest reaches harbor some of the most alien and terrifying life forms on Earth. Far below where sunlight fades to eternal darkness, creatures have evolved in ways that seem to defy ...

For your next day off, why not take a peek into the world of the deep sea at an aquarium?Crabs with long, outstretched legs ...

For all of humanity’s ventures to outer space, we’ve yet to see 99.999% of the deep-sea floor. In the latest subaquatic news, researchers discovered some 4,000 marine species, 88% of which were new ...

Whether they are land creatures or creatures in shallow parts of the ocean, if you trace their food source, you will eventually arrive at plants or phytoplankton. This is because organic matter create ...

A mischievous sea cucumber and 56 other newly discovered marine species are making a splash in the South Atlantic Ocean. The new creatures were discovered during an expedition of ...

Dive into the movement of the spindly brittle star, which is more mobile, and more connected, in the deep sea. Deep-sea brittle stars are always on the move. That’s what a new study seems to suggest, ...

A deep-sea exploration team has discovered 57 new species, including one they compare to a Spongebob Squarepants character, ‘Patrick Star’. STAY UP TO DATE WITH THE LATEST NEWS BY SUBSCRIBING TO ...

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