Named for their plump, pink, and rounded bodies, sea pigs are very abundant, but you are unlikely to ever see one, living as ...

Nearly four kilometers below the surface of the Greenland Sea, scientists have discovered a thriving community of life that ...

A team of researchers has confirmed the existence of at least one previously unknown nematode in the exceptionally salty lake ...

Scientists have identified a brand-new species of worm living in the Great Salt Lake, marking only the third known animal ...

A mining-machine test on the deep-ocean floor resulted in species diversity declining by roughly 32% in the tracks of the ...

Decomposition is essential to all ecosystems, both on land and in the ocean. In marine environments, decomposition and ...

They’ve been called “bubble chasers,” and “seep seekers,” though they sometimes call themselves “flare hunters.” They’re a ...

Despite crushing pressure, total darkness and near-freezing temperatures, researchers found an underwater world teeming with ...

In a rare experiment, when Scientists researching marine life placed whale bones in the deep sea, they expected that zombie ...

The federal government said it would hold hearings next month on controversial applications to mine the ocean floor. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey The Trump administration said on Tuesday that it had ...

A sea spider. This is a type of animal that is related to land spiders but does not belong to that group. They can grow to the size of a palm in the deep sea around Antarctica, but this particular ...

A terrifying look at the Bobbit worm, a segmented marine predator that burrows into the sand and uses razor-sharp jaws to snap unsuspecting fish in half with lightning speed. A ‘Trump class’ folly on ...