Far below the ocean's surface, in the dark depths of the deep sea floor ecosystem (about 3,000 feet or 1,000 meters deep), exists an entire world of deep sea creatures that humans rarely glimpse.

Formerly known as the 'mystery mollusk,' this glow-in-the-dark nudibranch is the first of its kind to be seen living in the ...

Bathydevius caudactylus swimming through the deep sea. Credit: Robison et al, Oceanographic Research Papers/DOI 10.1016/j.dsr.2024.104414 When scientists spotted a strange, hooded creature in the ...

Scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute identified an intriguing new deep sea species off of California ... A dominant shark lurks in the deep, dark ocean.

Creatures, including black scabbardfish and ... A team of scientists is surveying three separate deep sea marine protected areas. The first of the sites is the Faroe-Shetland Sponge Belt Nature ...

Scientists discovered a fascinating new deep sea animal they call the "mystery mollusc," and captured footage of the glowing ...

In early 2000, he stumbled on a strange creature he had never seen ... as inching their way over coral reefs, sea grass beds, kelp forests, the deep seafloor and rocky tide pools.