A newly described species of ghost shark, Rhinochimaera costaricana, has been identified from deep waters off Costa Rica ...

A survey of the abyssal Pacific has described 24 amphipod species new to science, and one of them proved so structurally ...

The Indian Ocean accounts for about a fifth of global ocean area, with 90% of it reaching deeper than 1,000 meters (3,280 ...

There is high global demand for critical metals, and many countries want to try extracting these sought-after metals from the seabed. An international study, which has discovered large numbers of new ...

Indian scientists have discovered a new deep-sea skate in the Arabian Sea. The species, Dipturus dhritiae, had remained ...

An international team of marine biologists has documented the highest known count of deep-sea species living in methane seeps off Costa Rica's Pacific coast. Of the documented species, 131 are ...

Scientists sent a remotely operated vehicle into one of Earth's most isolated ocean regions and came back with creatures so ...

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One surprise find was a new species of a clear jellyfish-related animal called the Erenna siphonophore. The animal was found about 6,500 feet below the surface of the ocean. The different species of ...