STRANGE creatures dredged up from the Antarctica seafloor by scientists may have previously been undiscovered. Australian scientists captured a jelly-like, eyeless ‘sea pig’ and ...

And unlike the more mainstream animals under the sea — seahorses, sharks, and even deep sea anglerfish — one cool member of ...

Explorers know that the Earth’s oceans are vast, covering about 71% of the surface of the globe. According to a new study, ...

The lightless deep has forced creatures to produce their own forms of illumination, including the viperfish. The deep sea creature also attract its prey using a flashing light light at the end of ...

However, the scientists who made the discovery also warned that new deep-sea mining could disturb this poorly understood mechanism. Without more knowledge of the underwater environment ...

A remotely operated submersible saw the “semi-gelatinous” animal lying on the ocean floor and “flying underwater.” Take a ...

In a new study published in Science Advances, oceans researchers say that just 0.001% of the deep seafloor has been visually ...

Scientists studied deep-sea lifeforms while tracking the effects ... the researchers say it’s likely that some undiscovered species were also included in their haul. You can stay up-to-date ...

Not only do these animals live in an enormous ... It's hard to overstate the importance of the deep sea. It holds hundreds of thousands of undiscovered species, it is probably where life on ...

Therefore sea pigs - and other deep-sea creatures - can look very different on the surface than they do in their natural habitat. The sea pig, for example, is typically more uniform when crawling ...