In the depths of the ocean resides a creature that plays a surprisingly crucial role in our planet’s climate system. The ...

Imagine a place on our planet so vast, so mysterious, that it has no owner. Picture a realm teeming with bizarre life forms, ...

IN the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep ... range from tiny worms in the muddy sediment, to floating sponges tethered to the rocks like aquatic balloons and a giant sea cucumber dubbed the ...

Largely for purposes of self-defense, shellfish quickly moved beyond mere shelter to develop a dazzling array of knobs, ribs, spines, teeth ... deep, and in a Himalayan lake 15,000 feet above sea ...

He began this research in 1996, about two decades after scientists discovered hydrothermal vents—cracks in the deep ocean floor ... inhabited by giant worms, blind shrimp and sulfur-eating ...

If you’re playing the enhanced Wii U title for the first time, you’ll undoubtedly be dazzled by its breathtaking open world and astonishingly deep battle ... and swiftly worms its way into ...

Rows of teeth allow them to feed. They lack scales ... Saltwater fish live in the shallows, reefs, on the seafloor, in the deep sea, trenches, and virtually anywhere else in the ocean. Fish come in ...

Also found on a submarine canyon floor: a deep-sea worm sometimes called a "disco worm," but scientifically known as a polychaete (which means “many bristles”), glittering like sparkly steel wool.

For the first time ever, a colossal squid has been captured on camera in the deep sea, offering researchers a rare look at one of the ocean’s most elusive giants. The footage was captured last ...

Where does the deep sea begin? Definitions vary across science and legal frameworks. For the purposes of their joint analysis, the members of the European Marine Board's (EMB) Deep Sea and Ocean ...

Most of what’s known about the deep-sea painted swellshark, was learned when researchers found specimens in the fish markets of Bali and Lombok, Indonesia back in the early 2000s. However ...

Life is beginning to return to deep-sea mining tracks in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, but full recovery may be impossible. The seabed, cleared of metal-rich nodules in 1979, still shows visible ...