The Mononoke tilefish, Branchiostegus sanae, sports striking facial markings reminiscent of San’s tribal paint, symbolizing a call for marine conservation.

Rare footage of a bigfin squid captured by a ROV deployed 11,000 feet deep in the Tonga Trench. Credit: Deep Sea Research Center, University of Western Australia ...

Ocean's Giant The blue whale is a true marvel of the marine world. Known as the largest animal to ever exist on Earth, these ...

Giant Deep Sea Squid. NOAA Photo Library, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons ... Known for its aggressive nature and ability to travel vast distances in search of prey, it poses a significant danger to ...

Organisms in the deep sea rely on gravity flows to lay down sediment and then make burrows beneath the seafloor, according to a new study.

Social media users are reacting to the rare sighting of a black seadevil anglerfish that was spotted on the surface of the water near Tenerife island in Spain.

Scientists say the crustaceans have developed a visual system based on proteins that help them detect the little light that ...

Soon after, the finger-size creatures, which owe their luminescence to a chemical reaction similar to the one seen in ...

A shark research organization came face to face last week with a deep sea creature who isn't known for seeing the light of day. Condrik Tenerife, a shark and stingray research and conversation ...

Marine scientists who made headlines last year with their discovery that deep sea nodules ... “I didn’t set out to show this; we just set out to measure sea floor respiration,” he says ...

Another deep-sea dweller washed up on a Carlsbad beach this week and its body now joins millions of other rare specimens being preserved for research at a lab in San Diego.