Deep below the surface of the ocean, bacteria and critters that feed off nutrients spouting from hydrothermal vents met with ...

Some of these deep-sea critters are so crazy, you will find it hard to believe they actually exist! Deep beneath the surface of the ocean, there are hundreds, possibly thousands, of creatures we ...

The deep sea is cold and dark. The pressure is immense, and meals are hard to come by. Some of the very features that make deep-sea critters appear bizarre to us actually help them survive in this ...

It’s not easy for deep-sea critters to get enough food to survive. Lots of marine snow—tiny bits of dead animals, feces, and other debris—does drift down to the seafloor.

Sea critters crawl on a whale's carcass deep below the surface of the ocean. (EV Nautilus) The camera aboard captured amazing footage of the skeleton being scavenged.

Often, when deep-sea expeditions find new species, they’re quite small, like various worms or other critters that live in the sediment of the ocean floor.

This ghostly-looking orange cirrate octopus was observed with the MBARI's ROV Doc Ricketts on my recent research cruise to the Taney Seamounts. These finned octopuses belong to an order of animals ...

New ‘Poké Ball’ robot catches deep-sea critters without harming them. This device could help unlock the secrets of fragile, soft-bodied sea creatures ...

The fast-sinking feces of an obscure sea creature play a significant role in removing the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, according to a new study. Sea Critters' Feces Clean Air ...

One of the critters the robotic explorer captured on camera was a polychaete, a type of deep-sea worm. In the clip of the creature the Schmidt Ocean Institute shared on social media, the ...

Beauty is in the eyes of Mr. Blobby’s beholders. The blobfish, a deep-sea creature, has been described as the world’s ugliest animal because of its gelatinous, tadpole-like body. But voters in ...