Somewhere in the North Atlantic, more than a kilometer beneath its surface, a cold-water coral reef stretches across an ...

Two rare deep-sea oarfish—often nicknamed "doomsday fish"—have washed up in the shallows of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. In a ...

Two oarfish, the deep-sea creatures that folklore has nicknamed "doomsday fish," washed ashore in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico at the same time this week.

There are many spectacular aquariums around the world, but these are the best of the best when it comes to magnificent animals and innovative design.

Reviewing those rare encounters, marine scientist Mark C. Benfield at Louisiana State University (LSU) connected scattered sightings and documented the fish alive in its natural depth range. Footage ...

This octopus can brood its eggs for nearly four years without eating. Here’s how this biological extreme has reshaped how ...

The model focused on “palaeogeographic context,” meaning the ancient layout of coasts, islands, and seaways. It tested whether coastline orientation and coastline shape predicted extinctions over deep ...

A beach day in Cabo took an unexpected turn when two sisters spotted something strange flashing in the distance." ...

“As they got closer, they realized the creatures struggling in the shallow water were oarfish, a rare deep-sea species that ...

Monterey Bay Aquarium biologists, who plunged a remotely operated vehicle almost 1,600 feet underwater during a research ...

In a world first, scientists that discovered a new type of chiton turned to social media crowdsourcing to come up with the ...

When deep-sea explorers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute went on expedition off the coast of Argentina, they were amazed to see an enormous creature floating through the gloom: a giant phantom ...