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

In a recent two-week voyage through the southern Atlantic, scientists uncovered an astonishing array of 31 previously unknown ...

Far below the ocean surface, some deep-sea creatures evolve into enormous versions of their shallow-water relatives — a ...

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 deep ocean is home to one of the strangest phenomena on Earth: bioluminescence. Scientists estimate that more than 75% of deep-sea animals can produce their own light, using it to hunt, hide, ...

The ocean’s hiding some deep secrets. An oceanic expedition off Brazil has discovered 31 otherworldly new critters, including ghostly invertebrates, animals living inside their own bodily fluids and ...

Scientists exploring one of Earth's least-understood ecosystems identified dozens of previously unknown species, including glowing jellyfish ROV SuBastian / Schmidt Ocean Institute Scientists ...

(Gerard Soury/The Image Bank/Getty Images) In an abyssal chasm yawning deep beneath the Indian Ocean, a vast 'city of the dead' has slowly been growing in the frigid darkness. Along some 1,200 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Gerard Soury/The Image Bank/Getty Images) In an abyssal chasm yawning deep beneath the Indian Ocean, a vast 'city of the dead' ...

On the barren seafloor, a sunken whale is like an all-you-can-eat buffet popping up on a deserted island. All manner of hardy deep-sea critters congregate at the carcass, turning a biological ghost ...

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