When people imagine alien life, they usually look toward the stars. But there is another unexplored world much closer to home ...

Life in the deep ocean evolves under crushing pressure, scarce food, cold water, and darkness that sunlight never reaches.

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After a two week expedition off the coast of Brazil, an international team of researchers discovered 31 new marine species, including a fast-moving gossamer worm, a creepy fish, and other organisms ...

In a recent two-week voyage through the southern Atlantic, scientists uncovered an astonishing array of 31 previously unknown marine creatures living in the shadowy waters off Brazil. These ...

California’s beaches may be some of the most photographed and well-documented coastlines in the world, but just miles from the shore, scientists are still finding creatures never seen by humans.

A new study suggests that deep-sea life reaps the benefits of icebergs’ castoffs — a rare silver lining as a warming planet destabilizes glacial ice. By K. R. Callaway See more of our coverage in your ...

SUDDENLY, out of darkness, a ghostly city of gnarled white towers looms over the submersible. As the sub approaches to scrape a sample from them, crew-member Kevin Hand spots something otherworldly: a ...

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 ...

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Scientists aboard the Polarstern research vessel were sailing along in 2021 when they came upon an unusual iceberg floating through the Fram Strait, an Arctic passage between Greenland and the ...