The Gonatus antarcticus squid, a mysterious squid found only in the frigid waters around Antarctica, was caught on camera for the first time on Christmas Day by the Schmidt Ocean Institute. The ...

Deep beneath the surface of Guam’s coral reefs, an unseen world of vibrant and strange creatures thrives. Researchers recently uncovered 20 new-to-science species in this mysterious, deep-sea zone ...

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 ...

Researchers have mapped the distribution of a jellyfish subspecies and found that creatures which lack a distinctive "knob" are somehow prevented from leaving the Arctic. When you purchase through ...

A deep-sea expedition has recorded 30 previously unknown species from one of the planet’s most inaccessible regions, at depths of up to 700 meters, or 2,300 feet, in the Southern Ocean. The ...