When people imagine alien life, they usually look toward the stars. But there is another unexplored world much closer to home ...

After a two week expedition off the coast of Brazil, an international team of researchers discovered 31 new marine species, including a fast-moving gossamer worm, a creepy fish, and other organisms ...

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

These videos feature a spookfish so alien that it seems like a sci-fi concoction, as well as thermal vents spewing life-forming materials into the depths of the Atlantic ...

The deep sea is cold, dark and under immense pressure. Yet life has found a way to prevail there, in the form of some of Earth's strangest creatures. Since deep-sea critters have adapted to near ...

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 ...

The deep ocean remains largely unexplored, despite containing a large portion of the living organisms and animals on Earth. Among the many creatures populating the deep-sea are so-called Cyclothone, ...

The deep sea is cold, dark and under immense pressure. Yet life has found a way to prevail there, in the form of some of Earth’s strangest creatures. Since deep-sea critters have adapted to near ...