While they didn't live in a pineapple under the Phosphoria Sea, it turns out a good chunk of the prehistoric Intermountain ...

A standout discovery was this new predatory sponge. Its spherical form is covered in tiny hooks that trap prey.

The second expedition took researchers to the Southern Ocean’s Bellingshausen Sea, off West Antarctica. The team was the ...

In the darkness of the deep ocean, where pressure crushes and light fails, an expedition has found an astonishing array of ...

Long before dinosaurs, trilobites, or even jellyfish swam the seas, Earth’s oceans were filled with creatures that looked like squishy tubes or blobs. They had no bones, no shells, and no nervous ...

The deep-sea Venus flower basket sponge can filter feed using only the faint ambient currents of the ocean depths, no pumping required, new research reveals. This discovery of natural 'zero energy' ...

INDIANA, USA — In reef caves off the Puerto Rican coast, not far from areas where sunlight may still trickle down through toasty Caribbean waters, lie contingencies of small but mighty creatures, ...

Marine sponges and the deep-sea ecosystem are comparatively under-studied and under-exploited compared with life in shallower waters - but a team of scientists from the University of Plymouth are ...

The planet could see 2 degrees Celsius of warming by the end of the decade. Earth may have already passed 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming and could be soon heading for 2 degrees of warming, researchers ...