In July and August scientists onboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor (too) spotted the oddities through the eyes of an underwater robot as they explored the Mar del Plata Canyon.

The deep sea has a reputation for producing “monsters.” Headlines describe its inhabitants as “freakish” or “terrifying.” But that framing misses the point. These animals aren’t curiosities from a ...

Reaching over 30 feet long, the mysterious giant oarfish is the real-life "sea serpent" behind centuries of myths and legends ...

From bone-eating snot-flowers to snowboarding scale worms, when a whale dies it becomes a colossal island of nutrients – attracting weird and wonderful creatures to feast.

Thousands of feet deep in the South Pacific Ocean, a pair of scientists piloted a submersible through the dark waters and scanned the seafloor. Some pale creatures with dozens of tentacles caught ...

Scientists find a deep-sea coral ecosystem over 100 years old, raising urgent concerns about bottom trawling in the South Pacific.

The deep sea is cold, dark and under immense pressure. Yet life has found a way to prevail there, in the form of some of Earth's strangest creatures. Since deep-sea critters have adapted to near ...

An outline of "research on deep-sea fauna and pollutants in Nansei Islands, 2001-2004" / Gento Shinohara ... [et al.] -- Preliminary report on deep water hydrozoan species collected off the Nansei ...

Deep down in the sea, where no light penetrates and where the availability of food is very low, life somehow exists in ways that can be considered str.

An outline of "Research on deep-sea fauna of the Sea of Japan, 2009-2013" / Hiroshi Saito ... [et al.] -- Cytaeis nuda Rees, 1962 (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from Toyama Bay, Japan / Hiroshi Namikawa -- ...