Thousands of meters beneath the ocean surface, creatures that have never been formally named are vanishing before scientists ...

By Victoria Schneider In its most recent update to the Red List of threatened species, the International Union for ...

In the ocean's twilight zone, where the reach of the Sun fades to nothing, an epic migration begins every time night falls.

In the dark depths of the ocean, food can be so scarce that animals may go months or even years between meals. Yet one ...

Meet some of the 31 new species scientists have identified in what could be record time, off the coast of Brazil.

A new study suggests that deep-sea life reaps the benefits of icebergs’ castoffs — a rare silver lining as a warming planet ...

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

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 ...

A pill bug dwelling under a garden pot curls its body into a tiny armored ball as self-defense. Far below the ocean surface, ...

The snails and other mollusks around hydrothermal vents have evolved to thrive in extreme conditions, but mineral extraction ...