The good news is that researchers are already rethinking how to design marine monitoring systems that minimize interference.

Lanice spongicola lives on a glass sponge, a deep-sea sponge with a skeleton made of silica, that rises from hard rock. The ...

A spherical sea sponge discovered in Antarctica, Carnivorous cladorhizid, is a carnivore, trapping and devouring live animals.

CALIFORNIA, USA — Scientists exploring the deep waters off California’s coast have discovered a tiny new species of snailfish that has been capturing attention not only for its scientific value but ...

"We’ve been really, really slow to work through the regulatory frameworks." Researchers make disturbing discovery after dead ...

Fossil discoveries in Qatar reveal a new ancient sea cow species, closely resembling modern dugongs. These findings highlight ...

Imagine SpongeBob Square Pants as a carnivore. That might seem a bit far-fetched, but scientists have discovered 30 new deep-sea species in the Southern Ocean, including the ominously nicknamed “death ...

Giant mosasaurs, once thought to be strictly ocean-dwelling predators, may have spent their final chapter prowling freshwater ...

Thousands of feet down off the coast of Japan swam a pink sea creature with “dark yellow eggs.” Out of the shadows, something encircled it and pulled it to the surface. Sifting through their catch, ...

One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet ...

Paracalliactis tsukisome, a newly discovered sea anemone living in symbiosis with hermit crabs on the deep-sea floor off Japan. (Yoshigawa et al via SWNS) By Stephen Beech A pink sea anemone that ...