Millions tuned into a livestream of rare deep-sea creatures off the coast of Argentina. This viral scientific mission even ...

Deep-sea ecosystems are more closely related across regions than their shallow-water counterparts. Marine animals off southern Australia, for instance, share close evolutionary links with species ...

They analysed DNA from nearly 2,700 brittle star specimens taken during hundreds of research expeditions and housed in 48 natural history museums worldwide and found that these creatures had crossed ...

Monsters lurking The sheer amount of unexplored deep sea, including the abyssal plains that can reach depths between 3,000m and 6,000m, means there's plenty of bizarre creatures left to discover.

The gradual migration of these deep-sea creatures led to invisible links forming between ecosystems as far apart as Iceland and Tasmania, they found. Brittle stars have lived for over 480 million ...

An underwater voyage has revealed a network of creatures thriving at the bottom of deep-sea ocean trenches. In these extreme environments, the crushing pressure, scant food and lack of sunlight ...

NEW YORK (AP) — An underwater voyage has revealed a network of creatures thriving at the bottom of deep-sea ocean trenches. In these extreme environments, the crushing pressure, scant food and lack of ...

However, numerous captivating creatures have evolved to thrive in these unforgiving conditions. Let's explore ten of the most mysterious deep-sea inhabitants and their extraordinary adaptations.

Researchers say the new footage of the deep sea fish may be the first live sighting of the creature in daylight near the ocean's surface Brenton Blanchet is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. He has ...

"May be to allow more effective exploitation of resources." Scientists stunned as deep-sea camera captures elusive creature nearly 5,000 meters below the ocean's surface: 'The animal disappears ...

This deep-sea shark has an elongated, eel-like body that grows up to 6.6 feet (2 m) long, as well as a large, flattened head. It is found worldwide and swims by undulating its body like a snake.

Humans know more about the moon than the deep sea—and correspondingly little about the animals in the Mariana Trench, the deepest point on Earth. This is not only because space exploration has long ...