Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences described 72 new species last year, from elegant birds to strange sea slugs.

The Texas coastline is seeing a rare and unusual sight: thousands of mysterious sea creatures washing ashore after what ...

The deep sea, a realm of perpetual darkness, crushing pressure, and cold temperatures, is home to some of the most unusual and mysterious creatures on Earth. Recent discoveries have unveiled a host of ...

An international study aimed at measuring the impact of mining critical metals from the seabed has found 788 species, many of them previously unknown, living at a depth of 4,000 metres in what the ...

The La Jolla-based Scripps Institution of Oceanography is no stranger to getting calls from the public with questions about marine species found along local shores. Some callers wonder what something ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. This year, jellyfish have made big news. The 5-foot-wide lion’s mane jelly ...

Researchers in Hawaii discovered four new species of sponge. Getty Images/iStockphoto Researchers in Hawaii used structures that mimic coral reefs to study aquatic life — and they found four new ...

For all of humanity’s ventures to outer space, we’ve yet to see 99.999% of the deep-sea floor. In the latest subaquatic news, researchers discovered some 4,000 marine species, 88% of which were new ...

Researchers inside a deep-sea vehicle collected sea cucumbers from the seafloor, then discovered two new species. Jong Marshes via Unsplash Off the western coast of Australia, the Wallaby-Zenith ...

The fish was found at 200 to 2,000 meters below the surface. At least 16 types of recently discovered deep-sea fish are among the darkest creatures ever found, according to a study published Thursday.