A siphonophore—a colonial marine invertebrate related to the venomous stinging Portuguese Man-o-war—is scanned using Deep ...

These spheres from the abyss conceal creatures with startling biology.

The ocean’s deepest reaches harbor some of the most alien and terrifying life forms on Earth. Far below where sunlight fades to eternal darkness, creatures have evolved in ways that seem to defy ...

The ocean is still one of the biggest mysteries on Earth, and the deeper you go, the stranger it gets. Far below the surface, where sunlight can’t reach, lives a world full of creatures that look more ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Beneath the neon lights of a laser-scanning microscope, newly classified species glow ...

Benji Jones is a senior environmental correspondent at Vox, covering biodiversity loss and climate change. Before joining Vox, he was a senior energy reporter at Business Insider. Benji previously ...

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The ocean is full of surprises, and scientists are still finding creatures that seem almost unreal. From tiny reef animals to bizarre deep-sea species, these discoveries show just how much of the ...

A potentially undescribed siphonophore. (ROV SuBastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute) An oceanic expedition has turned up 31 new species from a vast, dimly lit habitat between the sunlit surface and the ...

The reseachers investigated preserved specimens kept at museums, like this Bufoceratias wedli from the Field Museum in Chicago. Matthew Davis Female anglerfish have long been thought to use the long, ...