Learn how researchers discovered a new superfamily living at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

Scientists discovered 24 new deep-sea species, including one from a completely new branch of life in the Pacific Ocean.

Sometimes, real life is stranger than fiction, a fact made clear during the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Seascape Alaska 5 expedition in August 2023. While on the deep ocean ...

In a remarkable deep-sea breakthrough, researchers have discovered 24 new species of amphipods in the Pacific’s ...

In July and August scientists onboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor (too) spotted the oddities through the eyes of an underwater robot as they explored the Mar del Plata Canyon.

Beneath the neon lights of a laser-scanning microscope, newly classified species glow in vivid greens and oranges—a far cry from the pitch-black abyss of their natural ocean floor. Researchers have ...

It sounds like something out of science fiction, but researchers really did discover a strange, golden object nearly 2 miles ...

Deep down in the sea, where no light penetrates and where the availability of food is very low, life somehow exists in ways ...

Far below the reach of sunlight, the deep ocean is stitched together by pockets of warmth and chemistry that function like underwater cities. Scientists have spent decades tracing these hidden oases, ...