Marine animals living in the cold, dark depths of the ocean are interconnected across the world by a hidden “superhighway”, a groundbreaking new study suggests. The research, published in the journal ...

Scientists discover underwater mountain ranges, golden towers of coral, and never-before-seen sea creatures.

Thousands of feet down off the coast of Japan swam a pink sea creature with "dark yellow eggs." Out of the shadows, something encircled it and pulled it to the surface. Sifting through their catch, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr Michelle Taylor's research team made international headlines when they discovered an elusive colossal squid [Michelle Taylor] ...

As you get closer to the bottom of the ocean, it gets darker, denser and stranger. All light from the surface has been absorbed, and only the most adapted species can navigate the lack of oxygen in ...

Beneath the ocean's surface lies a world of perpetual darkness, home to some of Earth's most bizarre and fascinating creatures. These deep-sea inhabitants have evolved extraordinary adaptations to ...

Thousands of feet deep in the South Pacific Ocean, a pair of scientists piloted a submersible through the dark waters and scanned the seafloor. Some pale creatures with dozens of tentacles caught ...

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

A Chinese submersible has discovered thousands of worms and mollusks nearly 10 kilometers (six miles) below sea level in the Mariana Trench, the deepest colony of creatures ever observed, a study ...

Thousands of feet down off the coast of Japan swam a pink sea creature with “dark yellow eggs.” Out of the shadows, something encircled it and pulled it to the surface. Sifting through their catch, ...