The specimens were the bycatch of a fishing vessel in the South China Sea, which researchers later bought to study.

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...

Deep-sea fish adapt to some of the most extreme conditions on Earth. New research analyzing their evolution finds the same ...

The researchers studied tissue from over 120 fish. They found that 50 to 60 percent of their diet came from ocean’s twilight ...

A new study in Cell reveals that species living miles beneath the ocean’s surface have independently evolved the same genetic ...

Japan warns of a catastrophic megaquake along the Nankai Trough, with the potential to trigger massive tsunamis, destroy ...

A viral video of a rare oarfish surfacing in Mexico has reignited fears linked to Japanese folklore, which considers the deep ...

How far would you go for a good meal? For some of the ocean's top predators, maintaining a decent diet requires some ...

This is the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem that begins 650 feet below the ocean surface and sustains life across our ...

An old video of a camera footage catching a ‘bright fast-moving object’ deep in the sea allegedly ‘off the coast of Japan’ ...

A new species of anglerfish, “Gigantactis paresca,” discovered by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa oceanographers, was recently ...

I am concerned about the impact of deep-sea mining on this ecologically important midwater zone. This ecosystem is home to zooplankton – tiny animals that drift with ocean currents – and micronekton, ...