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 ...

A riotous photography collection from a recent underwater mission off the coast of Chile shows new and fascinating deep-sea ...

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet—where creatures glow and life survives under crushing ...

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

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

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

Deep-sea fish thrive in extreme pressure, darkness, and pollution, revealing new survival mechanisms and threats.

A new study in Cell reveals that species living miles beneath the ocean’s surface have independently evolved the same genetic mutation. These species, which diverged on the tree of life millions of ...

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