A major international effort to document Japan's deep-ocean life has confirmed the discovery of 38 new species, following a landmark expedition by The Nippon Foundation-Nekton Ocean Census and the ...

Scientists discovered 24 new deep-sea species in the Pacific, including a rare new superfamily - a completely new branch of ...

Scientists discovered 24 new deep-sea species, including one from a completely new branch of life in the Pacific Ocean.

In a remarkable deep-sea breakthrough, researchers have discovered 24 new species of amphipods in the Pacific’s ...

A patch of seafloor targeted for future mining has given us a blunt reminder that we don’t really know what’s going on down ...

Lurking in the depths of the ocean are countless species that have never been seen by humans before. As part of a project to ...

Meteor impacts may have helped spark life on Earth, creating hot, chemical-rich environments where the first living cells ...

Researchers identified 24 new creatures and an entire superfamily of species in the Pacific, all while NOAA moves to ...

From a grumpy-looking deep-sea batfish to an apricot-coloured starry handfish and a new catshark. See the bizarre range of ...

Beneath the neon lights of a laser-scanning microscope, newly classified species glow in vivid greens and oranges—a far cry from the pitch-black abyss of their natural ocean floor. Researchers have ...