From bone-eating snot-flowers to snowboarding scale worms, when a whale dies it becomes a colossal island of nutrients – attracting weird and wonderful creatures to feast.

With growing interest in mining critical metals from the seafloor, countries are now negotiating international rules. The ...

Picture a home so beautiful it looks like it’s made of glass—delicate, intricate, shimmering. Now imagine discovering that ...

Deep down in the sea, where no light penetrates and where the availability of food is very low, life somehow exists in ways that can be considered str.

Reaching over 30 feet long, the mysterious giant oarfish is the real-life "sea serpent" behind centuries of myths and legends ...

A mysterious deep-sea squid filmed 4.1 km below the Pacific can disguise itself as the ocean floor, raising new questions about hidden marine life and what we still don’t know.

This adorable sea lion has to eat five to eight percent of its body weight every day to stay healthy and hydrated. Over the ...

Whale carcasses transform the deep sea into a vibrant ecosystem, offering a massive, decades-long feast for bizarre creatures. From hagfish and sharks stripping flesh to bone-eating worms and ...

Somewhere in the North Atlantic, more than a kilometer beneath its surface, a cold-water coral reef stretches across an ...

This octopus can brood its eggs for nearly four years without eating. Here’s how this biological extreme has reshaped how ...