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

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

Deep in the Barents Sea off the northern coast of Norway, the Borealis Mud Volcano has been spewing methane for centuries and supporting a flourishing community of seafloor creatures. Researchers have ...

Eelpouts are primarily bottom-dwelling species, found in deep trenches or around hydrothermal vents in some of the planet’s ...

Previously, scientists thought only microbes and viruses could live beneath the seafloor crust where tectonic plates meet.

These creatures digest microplastics and excrete ... This buildup can lead to increased carbon and nitrogen levels on the seafloor, promoting algal blooms that disrupt marine ecosystems.

Scientists discovered the 1-foot-long animal while aboard a submersible several miles deep in the Pacific Ocean. Take a look.

Pat Hutchings, a marine biologist focused on studying marine worms, visited Bora-Bora in 2015 while on vacation and decided ...

Mushroom corals aren’t fast creatures: They only moved 45 millimeters every 24 hours. Nonetheless, their mobility—however slow—is a useful adaptation. They may need to relocate to deeper ...

I did not feel the impact of any of the three quakes, but it did make me wonder what that combined impact might have had on the seafloor and the creatures that live there. I’ll be curious to see ...

“glass”-like creature was discovered. Getty Images/iStockphoto Off the coast of Japan, thousands of feet below the surface, the seafloor explodes with heat. Cracks and vents in the rocky ...