The scientists examined the lineages of two groups of bivalves—marine invertebrates that include clams, oysters, mussels, and ...
A photographer captured this extraordinary site where whales' bodies lie in the shallows, with troubling repercussions for the deep oceans.
Dive into the depths of the ocean to discover seven rare deep-sea creatures so strange and elusive, you won't believe they ...
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 ...
Researchers have long believed that a sudden, massive deluge filled a dry, salt-filled Mediterranean 5 million years ago.
A cnidarian is attached to a dead sponge stalk on a manganese nodule in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone. Diva Amon and Craig Smith, University of Hawaii at Mānoa Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it ...
New research shows why some shelly critters flourished in the ocean’s harshest habitats — and others didn’t Jack Tamisiea Beds of Bathymodiolus mussels provide important habitat for other deep-sea ...
The ocean is home to some of the strangest-looking creatures in the world. It seems that the deeper you go, the stranger the ...
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Feb 18 (Reuters) - For more than a century, biology textbooks have stated that vision among vertebrates - people included - is built from two clearly defined cell types: ...