Meet Ferreiraella populi, a weird mollusk discovered in Japan. Keep reading to find out how Rihanna is involved.

Deep inside Earth lies a hidden world of "intraterrestrials" that have been dormant for hundreds of thousands of years — what ...

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

The deep sea anglerfish lives in a place where sunlight never reaches and pressure crushes almost everything. In that ...

A deep-sea mining test shows ecosystem damage can begin immediately, with more than one-third of seafloor animals lost in a single pass.

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.

A glowing mystery mollusk spotted in deep-sea footage has been identified as a new species of nudibranch. For years, its ...

Picture a pair of eyes the size of soccer balls peering out at you from the dark depths of the ocean. For the colossal squid, this is life. The eye si.

For many years, scientists believed that life in Utah’s Great Salt Lake was extremely limited. Its caustic, hyper-saline ...

Invisible clouds of sediment created by underwater mining spread for miles, putting ocean floor ecosystems at risk.

Rare footage captures the giant phantom jellyfish off the coast of Argentina, one of the least-seen deep-sea creatures, offering new insights into deep-ocean ecosystems.

Scientists in a rare deep-sea discovery have found “school bus-size” phantom jellyfish off the coast of Argentina during the expedition. Researchers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute ...