A riotous photography collection from a recent underwater mission off the coast of Chile shows new and fascinating deep-sea creatures—including a “mystery mollusk,” a bioluminescent jellyfish and a “s ...

Many otherworldly deep-sea creatures, though ... enabling it to gaze upwards while its body is motionless in the dark waiting for prey. It's one of the strangest animals ever discovered and ...

It has a dark, scaleless body and a large mouth ... and has sensitive eyes to detect bioluminescence from other creatures. The deep-sea lizardfish is also hermaphroditic, meaning it has both ...

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep ... the deep-sea survival of these species, it’s likely that a variety of other genetic changes additionally aid in these creatures ...

Iceberg A-84 broke off from Antarctica and revealed a thriving community of sea creatures underneath. Now, researchers are ...

Photo by Huang M-C, Kawai T (2025) At a fishing port in Taiwan, researchers bought four giant crustaceans hauled in as bycatch by a trawling vessel in the South China Sea. The deep-sea dwellers ...

Inside deep-sea coral in the Pacific, an iridescent creature waits in ambush ... The species also have “dark brown” mandibles with “wing-shaped” hard “cutting edges,” researchers ...

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet—where creatures glow and life survives under crushing ...