A deep-sea expedition off the coast of Australia has uncovered a hidden world teeming with life, including more than 100 ...

This bizarre-looking fish may seem otherworldly, but every part of its design solves a real problem: how to see, hunt and ...

Dive into the abyss and discover 25 creepy deep sea creatures you've never heard of! From frilled sharks to vampire squid, ...

Meet the “ghost fish,” a phantom of the abyss. Here’s how we found the first ever proof of its existence just a few years ago. The deep sea is a part of the world that very few humans get the chance ...

Since time immemorial, the sea has been a realm of intrigue, and many of the species within possess skills that border on the ...

A new study offers the first direct evidence that deep-dwelling mesopelagic fish, which account for up to 94% of global fish biomass, excrete carbonate minerals at rates comparable to shallow-water ...

In 2025, scientists at the California Academy of Sciences officially named 72 new species — beetles, sea slugs, fish, flowering plants, and a bird that has been hiding in plain sight in one of the ...

What started as a quiet night offshore turned into a record-challenging moment for a Florida angler fishing 120 miles off the Alabama coast. Around 4 a.m. on Aug. 1, Taylor Guidry stepped onto the ...

WASHINGTON — 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 processing dim light and ...