The ocean’s deepest reaches harbor some of the most alien and terrifying life forms on Earth. Far below where sunlight fades to eternal darkness, creatures have evolved in ways that seem to defy ...

When people imagine alien life, they usually look toward the stars. But there is another unexplored world much closer to home ...

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In a recent two-week voyage through the southern Atlantic, scientists uncovered an astonishing array of 31 previously unknown marine creatures living in the shadowy waters off Brazil. These ...

California’s beaches may be some of the most photographed and well-documented coastlines in the world, but just miles from the shore, scientists are still finding creatures never seen by humans.

A new study suggests that deep-sea life reaps the benefits of icebergs’ castoffs — a rare silver lining as a warming planet destabilizes glacial ice. By K. R. Callaway See more of our coverage in your ...

SUDDENLY, out of darkness, a ghostly city of gnarled white towers looms over the submersible. As the sub approaches to scrape a sample from them, crew-member Kevin Hand spots something otherworldly: a ...

There's increasing interest in deep-sea mining, but the impacts that this will have on the animals that live in the depths isn't fully understood. A new review led by our scientists is giving us our ...

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Scientists aboard the Polarstern research vessel were sailing along in 2021 when they came upon an unusual iceberg floating through the Fram Strait, an Arctic passage between Greenland and the ...