Animals that defy every visual expectation of what a living organism should look like are turning up on ROV cameras in the ...

When photographer Jialing Cai plunged into the ocean in the dead of night, she found creatures of the deep had risen up to ...

Deposited over millions of years, the whale necropolis is covered with deep-sea species, many of which are new to science.

Known as Dalhousiella yabukii, the worm resides inside a glass sea sponge—a simple marine animal that forms a glass-like skeleton—in the cold, dark waters off the coast of Japan. And it’s just one of ...

The 5.3-million-year-old ‘whale graveyard’ extends for more than one thousand kilometres and supports entire ocean ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

New research led by the University of the Sunshine Coast has found that reef manta rays are diving deep in storm events to ...

Whale watchers in Madeira captured the astonishing moment orcas took down the deep-diving marine mammal. The predatory behavior had never been documented in the region. A pygmy sperm whale was ...

The New England Aquarium team recorded more than 700 marine animals off of Cape Cod during a mid-October survey. The three True's whales spotted by the new England Aquarium's Anderson Cabot Center for ...

Diving is physiologically challenging for marine animals. Long and deep dives can trigger "anaerobic" (oxygen-less) metabolism in organs other than the heart and brain that causes lactic acid to ...