A newly discovered deep-sea creature has become an unlikely Internet star. After appearing in a popular YouTube video, a rare ...

The deep sea anglerfish lives in a place where sunlight never reaches and pressure crushes almost everything. In that darkness, evolution took a strange and unsettling path. Bioluminescent lures, ...

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

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

Japanese scientists confirm a new marine coral species, Corallizoanthus aureus, that glows in the dark and inhabits deep caves in the ocean.

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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.

These Creatures From the Deep Sea Could Star in a Sci-Fi Movie In the darkest depths of Earth’s oceans, strange and otherworldly creatures roam — the kind you’d expect to see in a sci-fi movie. Watch ...

A dome-fronted submersible sinks beneath the waves off Indonesia, heading down nearly 1,000 meters in search of new species, plastic-eating microbes and compounds that could one day make medicines.

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The yeti crab is a strange species because of its furry appearance. Read here to learn about why these crabs are furry!