Under-sea mountains are key locations for predators -- with 41 times more sharks than the open ocean, new research shows.

A new look at fossils from the Cambrian Period around 500 million years ago has revealed that some of the earliest animals spent time on mudflats that were sometimes exposed to the air – a find that c ...

Scientists found deep-sea shrimp evolved special vision to detect bioluminescent light and navigate their world.

The animals are not aliens, but giant pile worms, large marine worms that are typically found on the seafloor, but will swarm ...

[New Paper] Meet Delectopecten thermus, a new species of Glass Scallop from a deep-sea hot vent in Okinawa Trough, Japan! We ...

Astrobiologists in Germany are developing a new testing device that could help tease dormant alien microbes into revealing ...

Scientists uncovered a "Lost City" deep underwater in the Atlantic Ocean that could prove the existence of extraterrestrial ...

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New research has revealed that a hairy crustacean—dubbed "The Hoff crab" when it was discovered in 2010—is the first species ...

The species, which has the official name of Kiwa tyleri, lives in large communities around hot vents on the seafloor ... yeti crabs which live exclusively in harsh deep-sea environments like ...

The deepest regions of Earth's oceans, known as the abyssal and hadal zones, lie at least as far under the water's surface as ...

Meanwhile, climbing temperatures and punishing heatwaves could kill millions of people around the ... impacts for all life on Earth. Professor Stroeve says: ‘Summer sea ice for sure will be ...