When people imagine alien life, they usually look toward the stars. But there is another unexplored world much closer to home ...
A barreleye fish of the species Winteria telescopa. (Schmidt Ocean Institute/YouTube) Deep beneath the oceans' crashing waves lies a hidden landscape more alien than many of us could ever dream. Below ...
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 ...
Scientists have uncovered why big predators like sharks spend so much time in the ocean’s twilight zone. The answer lies with mid-sized fish such as the bigscale pomfret, which live deep during the ...
The deep sea is cold, dark and under immense pressure. Yet life has found a way to prevail there, in the form of some of Earth's strangest creatures. Since deep-sea critters have adapted to near ...