Far below the ocean’s surface, where sunlight disappears and pressure reaches crushing levels, some of the planet’s strangest ...

When most of us picture the ocean, we imagine turquoise waves, colorful reefs, and shoals of darting fish. But that’s only the surface. Venture deeper, far below the last reach of sunlight, and you ...

Some animals do not have red blood like humans. From spiders to octopuses, their copper-rich blue blood helps them survive ...

For more than 60 years, the ginkgo-toothed beaked whale (Mesoplodon ginkgodens) was one of the ocean’s greatest mysteries.

In July and August scientists onboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor (too) spotted the oddities through the eyes of an underwater robot as they explored the Mar del Plata Canyon.

Organisms in the deep sea rely on gravity flows to lay down sediment and then make burrows beneath the seafloor, according to a new study. Reading time 3 minutes Animals living in one of Earth’s most ...

We turn now to the ocean with NPR's Short Wave podcast. This story plays out in the midnight zone, which is 1,000 to 4,000 meters below the surface... (SOUNDBITE OF SUBMARINE MOVING) MA: ...Even ...

An outline of "research on deep-sea fauna and pollutants in Nansei Islands, 2001-2004" / Gento Shinohara ... [et al.] -- Preliminary report on deep water hydrozoan species collected off the Nansei ...

An outline of "Research on deep-sea fauna of the Sea of Japan, 2009-2013" / Hiroshi Saito ... [et al.] -- Cytaeis nuda Rees, 1962 (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from Toyama Bay, Japan / Hiroshi Namikawa -- ...

A mining-machine test on the deep-ocean floor resulted in species diversity declining by roughly 32% in the tracks of the ...