From bone-eating snot-flowers to snowboarding scale worms, when a whale dies it becomes a colossal island of nutrients – ...

Deep sea expedition off Caribbean islands captured images of unique corals sponges fish species never before documented ...

Two rare 'doomsday fish' surfaced on a Mexican beach and were rescued by tourists. Learn why these deep-sea oarfish appeared ...

The deep sea is inhabited by many creatures that are unlike any other in the world, and the coffinfish is certainly one of the strangest. Dubbed the s.

A photographer captured this extraordinary site where whales' bodies lie in the shallows, with troubling repercussions for the deep oceans.

Meet the “ghost fish,” a phantom of the abyss. Here’s how we found the first ever proof of its existence just a few years ago. The deep sea is a part of the world that very few humans get the chance ...

Somewhere in the North Atlantic, more than a kilometer beneath its surface, a cold-water coral reef stretches across an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr Michelle Taylor's research team made international headlines when they discovered an elusive colossal squid [Michelle Taylor] ...

Some are terrifying... others are so bizarre, lurking in the depths of the ocean. Many otherworldly deep-sea creatures, though, are so beautiful and mysterious that you won't believe they exist. Even ...

As you get closer to the bottom of the ocean, it gets darker, denser and stranger. All light from the surface has been absorbed, and only the most adapted species can navigate the lack of oxygen in ...