Twenty-four species of deep-sea crustaceans that had never been documented before have been formally described from the ...

Case in point: Scientists from Tokyo University and Hokkaido University in Japan stumbled across some mysterious jet-black ...

A two-week research cruise off the coast of Brazil has returned with evidence of more than two dozen previously unknown creatures living in the deep ocean’s midwater zone, where sunlight never reaches ...

The ocean’s hiding some deep secrets. An oceanic expedition off Brazil has discovered 31 otherworldly new critters, including ...

The enormous deep-sea cousins of your garden’s pill bugs can go five years without food. A gene they pilfered from bacteria ...

Before recent findings, goblin sharks were only recorded after being hooked on a fishing line and hauled to the surface, dying shortly after.

Scientists spotted the enigmatic creatures in 2019 and again in 2024, marking the first time they've been observed alive in the wild. The sightings drastically expand the animals' known geographic and ...

Scientists pulled 40,000 fossil spine fragments from the deep ocean floor and traced sea urchins living there for 104 million ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Far below the ocean’s surface, where sunlight can’t reach, some of the most unusual creatures on Earth thrive in complete darkness ...

Benji Jones is a senior environmental correspondent at Vox, covering biodiversity loss and climate change. Before joining Vox, he was a senior energy reporter at Business Insider. Benji previously ...

For all of humanity’s ventures to outer space, we’ve yet to see 99.999% of the deep-sea floor. In the latest subaquatic news, researchers discovered some 4,000 marine species, 88% of which were new ...

To capture its prey, the Tiburonia granrojo does not use stinging tentacles, as do the majority of jellies; it deploys long fleshy arms. Little else is currently know ...