Picture a home so beautiful it looks like it’s made of glass—delicate, intricate, shimmering. Now imagine discovering that ...

This octopus can brood its eggs for nearly four years without eating. Here’s how this biological extreme has reshaped how ...

The deep sea has a reputation for producing “monsters.” Headlines describe its inhabitants as “freakish” or “terrifying.” But that framing misses the point. These animals aren’t curiosities from a ...

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.

Scientists recorded the first shark in Antarctic waters when a sleeper shark passed a deep-sea camera in near-freezing darkness.

Thousands of feet deep in the South Pacific Ocean, a pair of scientists piloted a submersible through the dark waters and scanned the seafloor. Some pale creatures with dozens of tentacles caught ...

Somewhere in the North Atlantic, more than a kilometer beneath its surface, a cold-water coral reef stretches across an ...

A team of scientists experienced a moment they described as a mix of excitement and disbelief after finding a huge ‘’ghost ...

Using a deep-sea submersible vehicle, researchers captured a small animal having a strange snack. Screengrab from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's video Miles below the surface of the ocean, ...

Light is a primary driver of visual evolution in shrimp, according to new FIU research published this week in Nature Communications Biology. The deep sea is a dark place, with the only light coming ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The bottom of the ocean is cold, dark, and under extreme pressure. It is not a place suited to the physiology of us surface dwellers: At ...