By Liz Kimbrough A transparent goby fish drifted through the darkness, its skeleton visible through paper-thin skin. Nearby, ...

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

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

Scientists have long assumed the deep-sea Alicella gigantea was an uncommon survivor of the abyss.

As you get closer to the bottom of the ocean, it gets darker, denser and stranger. All light from the surface has been absorbed, and only the most adapted species can navigate the lack of oxygen in ...

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 ...

A bumpy snailfish, Andean mouse opossum and ancient sea cow were just some of the many species described in 2025.

Blue blood may look alien, but it’s one of evolution’s most elegant solutions to life in extreme environments. Here’s how ...

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The deep sea also harbours some of the most intriguing and alien-like species in existence, yet for several centuries, these ...

The recently announced discoveries were made on a 2022 deep-sea expedition off Western Australia’s Gascoyne coast csiro.au Australian scientists discovered two new marine species: a tiny porcelain ...

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