The ocean covers more than 70% of our planet’s surface, yet we’ve explored less than 5% of it. Below the sunlit waves lies an alien world of crushing pressure, eternal darkness, and bone-chilling cold ...

Life in the deep ocean evolves under crushing pressure, scarce food, cold water, and darkness that sunlight never reaches. Those conditions reward bodies and behaviors that can appear almost invented ...

Thousands of meters below the waves off Australia's east coast, far beyond where sunlight can reach, a stunning light show ...

In "Deep Blue Contact," there is fun to be had even after returning from an exploration. It is the time to open the ...

Green eyes visible deep within a transparent head. Fangs protruding from the mouth. Eyes of different sizes on the left and right. When looking at photos of deep-sea creatures, even though we know ...

Glittery sea worms and sea squirts fit for "The Lord of the Rings" universe might sound like pure fantasy, but they're very real creatures living in the deep sea. Some of these otherworldly ocean ...

Meet the “ghost fish,” a phantom of the abyss. Here’s how we found the first ever proof of its existence just a few years ago. The deep sea is a part of the world that very few humans get the chance ...

Following a deep-sea expedition into Argentina’s submarine canyons, and the subsequent international Species Discovery ...

Marine animals living in the cold, dark depths of the ocean are interconnected across the world by a hidden "superhighway", a groundbreaking new study suggests. The research, published in the journal ...

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 can ...

The Hadal Trenches are located in the deepest depths of the ocean, from around 3.6 to 6 miles underwater. It’s an alien world, freezing cold with crushing pressure. However, an ecosystem unlike any ...