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

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

The field of paleo-inspired robotics is opening up a new way to turn back time and studying prehistoric animals.

Between 66 million and 215 million years ago, long-necked reptiles called plesiosaurs inhabited the world’s oceans. By ...

The recent cold front that swept through the Texas coast has left an unusual sight on local beaches: Thousands of sea pens.

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

Pat Hutchings, a marine biologist focused on studying marine worms, visited Bora-Bora in 2015 while on vacation and decided to go scuba diving, she told McClatchy News via email. During the dive, some ...

Scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography descended thousands of meters where they likely discovered dozens of new animal species. Creatures flourish where methane gas seeps into the ocean ...

scientists aboard a submersible scanned the shadowy seafloor for signs of life. Soon enough, a “long” purple sea creature caught their attention — and for good reason. It turned out to be a ...