LURKING beneath the ocean’s surface are a host of terrifying creatures most humans will only see in their nightmares. Yet, ...

In haunting footage captured about 1,604 feet (489 meters) under the sea, cameras captured the tubular crustaceans latched onto the fish’s back. Though the parasites’ presence might trigger your gag ...

Chimaeras, also known as ghost sharks, are some of the most haunting creatures in the deep sea – and they live up to their ...

In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...

A strange video from the South Atlantic Ocean showed parasites on a deep-sea fish. These parasites, Lophoura szidati copepods, looked like they had pigtails. They clung to the head of a rattail ...

Plankton and other living organisms consume carbon near the ocean surface, and when they die, they sink to the deep ocean, bringing carbon from the atmosphere with them. This process is called the ...

Imagine a layer of the ocean so teeming with life that, when first discovered, scientists mistook it for the seafloor. This ...

Surprising footage reveals parasites attached to the head of a deep-sea fish. These crustaceans, visible in a video shared by the Schmidt Ocean Institute, feed on their host's bodily fluids. The video ...

By Maya Wei-Haas Maya Wei-Haas previously reported on the final expeditions of a deep-sea drilling research ... was parked on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean beneath nearly 1.6 miles of water ...

Crashing waves, glistening sea spray, a calm expanse of deep blue. These are the images that open “Ocean with David ...

A recent video from the ocean’s depths has stunned even seasoned scientists — showing two parasites firmly attached to a fish ...