Suddenly the dark waters lit up with a “starry”-looking glow. The source? An unusual new species of deep-sea animal ... kelp ...

In a new study, scientists report that deep-sea corals that lived 540 million years ago may have been the first animals to glow, far earlier than previously thought. “Light signalling is one of ...

Caption A magnificent coral Iridogorgia magnispiralis, a deep-sea octocorals that are known to be bioluminescent. Researchers now know the common ancestor of all octocorals likely already had the ...

Scientists say the crustaceans have developed a visual system based on proteins that help them detect the little light that ...

Nudibranchs are common in coastal environments—including tide pools, kelp forests, and coral ... deep sea, particularly below 2,000 meters. For there to be a relatively large, unique, and ...

(Either that, or they've just clocked one of those deep-sea glowing fish traveling at nearly the speed of light.) On February 13, 2023, KM3NeT detected a neutrino traveling so fast it had 30 times ...

Deep-sea coral fossils used by researchers to study carbon sequestration in the Southern Ocean 20,000 to 10,000 years ago. The Southern Ocean played a critical role in the rapid atmospheric carbon ...

An international group of scientists has returned from the depths of the ocean with a new lab animal in hand: a glowing anemone ... habitats such as tropical coral reefs. A group of scientists ...

Scientists capture a black sea devil anglerfish near Spain's Canary Islands, marking the first-ever daylight sighting of this deep-sea predator.

nearly 1,000 deep-sea methane seeps were recently discovered near the Pacific Northwest United States). Therefore, identifying whether other critical habitats exist in areas vulnerable to oil ...