It’s impossible to ignore a new discovery known affectionately as the death ball. And there’s a good reason to pay attention to this creature: it represents a group of organisms that scientists are ...

Beds of Bathymodiolus mussels provide important habitat for other deep-sea critters, including sea stars, scaleworms and limpets. NOAA Ocean Exploration. The deep sea is the large ...

In an exciting fusion of science and creativity, marine biologists have identified a new deep-sea coral species named Iridogorgia chewbacca. Native to the tropical western Pacific Ocean, this coral ...

We were not expecting to see this level of biodiversity in the Argentine deep sea, and are so excited to see it teeming with ...

The marine biologists of the Schmidt Ocean Institute are a busy bunch. Over the last few years, scientists aboard the ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Feb 18 (Reuters) - For more than a century, biology textbooks have stated that vision among ...

The chiton was first discovered in 2024 in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench at a depth of 5,500 meters. Ferreiraella populi belongs ...

The Senckenberg Ocean Species Alliance (SOSA), in partnership with the scientific publisher Pensoft Publishers and science ...

Meet the “ghost fish,” a phantom of the abyss. Here’s how we found the first ever proof of its existence just a few years ago. The deep sea is a part of the world that very few humans get the chance ...

Bathylepeta wadatsumi is a record-breaking limpet occupying volcanic rock deep below the surface of the northwestern Pacific Ocean. If the moniker sounds familiar, it may be because the species was ...

Mashable recently visited DEEP's campus — the Bristol-based company building deep sea habitats with the mission to get people to live under water by the end of this decade. We'll take you underwater ...