A riotous photography collection from a recent underwater mission off the coast of Chile shows new and fascinating deep-sea ...

Researchers have discovered an unlikely new species within the ocean's midnight zone: a glowing "mystery mollusk." Although ...

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute scientists have discovered Bathydevius caudactylus, a new species of glowing sea slug that lives deep in the ocean.

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

They're tiny, blobby, butt-shaped, and glow in the dark. What the heck are they? Scientists are still figuring them out.

When a male anglerfish finds his mate in the pitch-black expanse of the deep sea, he uses his sharp teeth to latch onto her ...

Brownstein says he suspects it could have been the species’ attempt to seek out optimal temperatures for survival. Nonetheless, this transition to the enormous midnight zone brought new challenges, ...