Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Far below the ocean’s surface lies a dark, freezing world that few humans have ever seen. In these extreme depths, some of the ...

The ocean’s deepest reaches harbor some of the most alien and terrifying life forms on Earth. Far below where sunlight fades to eternal darkness, creatures have evolved in ways that seem to defy ...

When scientists at Germany’s Senckenberg Natural History Museum asked the internet to help name a newly discovered deep-sea ...

The giant squid was detected along with over 220 species, including some that might have never been discovered before.

Lurking in the depths of the ocean are countless species that have never been seen by humans before. As part of a project to name 1,000 of these unknown animals by 2030, 24 new species of deep-sea ...

In a remarkable deep-sea breakthrough, researchers have discovered 24 new species of amphipods in the Pacific’s Clarion-Clipperton Zone—including a rare, entirely new superfamily. The findings reveal ...

A deep-sea mollusk, Catillopecten margaritatus, lost its sight and adapted to bacteria and chemicals to survive in extreme total darkness ...

When scientists set sail to explore the deep sea, they knew they would come face to face with a few unfamiliar creatures. What they did not know was just how many. After months of sorting, marine ...

There's increasing interest in deep-sea mining, but the impacts that this will have on the animals that live in the depths isn't fully understood. A new review led by our scientists is giving us our ...