The second expedition took researchers to the Southern Ocean’s Bellingshausen Sea, off West Antarctica. The team was the ...

As you get closer to the bottom of the ocean, it gets darker, denser and stranger. All light from the surface has been absorbed, and only the most adapted species can navigate the lack of oxygen in ...

After decades of eluding human detection, a deep-sea fish with a transparent skull has finally been captured on camera. This remarkable creature offers fresh insights into the unique biology of ...

In the deep-sea meta, strength means nothing and adaptation means everything. From anglerfish with living lures to crustaceans built for crushing pressure, these creatures prove that evolution doesn’t ...

Paralvinella hessleri accumulates microscopic particles of arsenic on its outer skin, which reacts with sulfide to form a microscopic armour of yellow orpiment. A bright-yellow worm that lives in deep ...

The bumpy snailfish, discovered 10,000 feet down off the coast of California, shows that not all denizens of the abyss are frightening. By Alexa Robles-Gil For an animal, surviving in the ocean’s ...

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 ...