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

The discovery of animals close to the deep hydrothermal ... beneath the sea across the eastern Pacific Ocean floor. “Our discovery shows us that animal life in the ocean is not restricted ...

This is the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem that begins 650 feet below the ocean surface and sustains life across our ...

This story was produced in collaboration with Vox.One morning this week, Hanna Koch was snorkeling in the Florida Keys when ...

These animals live in the water ... It scoots along the ocean floor, tentacles everywhere, its big round body going first and its big beady eyes on the lookout for danger. Big flat fish called ...

Researchers from the University of Aukland got a chance sighting of an octopus hitching a ride on the back of a shark, which ...

Animals release carbon in the form of CO2 when ... their bodies either becomes part of the food chain or sinks to the ocean floor. Carbon is stored At the bottom of the ocean, bacteria works ...

The octopus is one of the ocean’s most fascinating animals. As a species, it possesses almost humanlike intelligence and ...

After all, it provided a unique opportunity to explore the sea floor in an area of the ocean previously cut off to humans. Despite their excitement, the team on the Schmidt Ocean Institute vessel ...

A Chicago-sized iceberg recently broke away from Antarctica, giving scientists the chance to explore a portion of the sea ...