Strange animals found at the bottom of the ocean challenge our current understanding of life, scientists have said.

While scientists have known that tiny microbes have been prospering in the deepest, darkest parts of the ocean, a new voyage ...

Researchers traveling along the Kuril–Kamchatka and Aleutian trenches in the northwest Pacific Ocean used a manned ...

Transparent-faced fish glide through the murky depths, snow-like detritus drifts from above, and soft sponges emerge from the ...

"The observed damage was a near miss to three giant volcano sponges, believed to be the oldest animals on the planet, which ...

Snorkeling along the ocean floor and suddenly, you spot a fish that seems to be looking up at the stars. With its upward-facing eyes, the stargazer fish is like a celestial observer of the ...

USC scientists are exploring how the sandy seafloor off the Southern California coast takes up CO2 and helps protect the long ...

Sea stars may look like they're cuddling, but these underwater gatherings serve surprising survival and reproductive purposes ...

According to the film, trawling destroys an area of the ocean floor nearly as large as the Amazon rainforest every year—these vessels plough the seabed over and over, without giving it any ...

And at the bottom of the ocean, as it hit the seafloor, that claw would dig into the surface and try and pull up anywhere from two to three to as much as six or seven tons of material, and then ...