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

Callisto, the third largest moon in the entire solar system, orbits Jupiter from about 1.2 million miles away. The rocky ...

The Japan Trench, a vast tectonic chasm along the Pacific Ring of Fire, is known for its extreme depth—stretching 5 miles ...

The contents of three large metal cases have changed our understanding of life under the ocean. Inside were vials of sediment hauled up from a record 8km below the surface of the Pacific Ocean.

Traces of organisms detected in sediments from 7.5 kilometers below the ocean surface reveal how organisms living in the deep sea are engineering their own environments. Analyses of sediment cores ...

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.

New scans of the bottom of the Japan Trench reveal extensive burrow structures and evidence of regular "reset" events that ...

Marine biologists will drop 120 tonnes of rubble onto the sea floor off the coast of south-west Victoria to grow new sponge ...

Among the myriad creatures that populate our ocean, some stand out as having an outsized impact on the marine environment—shaping and maintaining habitats that themselves sustain countless other forms ...

The saltwater crocodile, the largest living reptile, strikes with immense bite force, capable of taking down large land ...

A scary-looking creature with “devil” in its name was spotted close to the surface off Tenerife, a Spanish island.

An unexpected radioactive discovery beneath the Pacific Ocean seabed may provide researchers with a new global geologic time ...