These videos feature a spookfish so alien that it seems like a sci-fi concoction, as well as thermal vents spewing ...

A barreleye fish of the species Winteria telescopa. (Schmidt Ocean Institute/YouTube) Deep beneath the oceans' crashing waves ...

Dr. Todd Clardy shared a photo of the specimen from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County to show how different they look from the fresh specimen Fedortsov caught Deep-sea "alien" fish ...

For an animal, surviving in the ocean’s deepest trenches requires remarkable adaptations: a gelatinous body that can withstand pressure, bioluminescent features to guide it, and a transparent ...

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A two-week expedition off Brazil's coast uncovered 31 previously unknown marine species, highlighting just how little is ...

These three fish are freaks, phantoms and mysteries of the deep. Here’s what we’ve learned from the rare glimpses we’ve had of their lives. The deep sea is one of Earth’s final frontiers. Given its ...

Scientists have uncovered why big predators like sharks spend so much time in the ocean’s twilight zone. The answer lies with mid-sized fish such as the bigscale pomfret, which live deep during the ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 18 (Reuters) - For more than a century, biology textbooks have stated that vision among vertebrates - people included - is built from two clearly defined cell types: rods for ...

The bottom of the ocean has barely been explored, but every journey to the deep reveals wondrous new lifeforms. As underwater mining gains momentum, we risk destroying one of the Earth’s last great wi ...