A siphonophore—a colonial marine invertebrate related to the venomous stinging Portuguese Man-o-war—is scanned using Deep ...

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Supergiant deep-sea isopods endure years without food by pairing an enlarged stomach with cold-adapted metabolic control.

In a recent two-week voyage through the southern Atlantic, scientists uncovered an astonishing array of 31 previously unknown ...

In the ocean's twilight zone, where the reach of the Sun fades to nothing, an epic migration begins every time night falls.

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Going without food for even a single day feels difficult for most people, so the idea of surviving five years between meals ...

A chiton smaller than a fingernail, pulled from a sunken log nearly three miles beneath the Pacific Ocean’s surface, now ...

They’re gonna need a bigger boat. A wildlife biologist recently went diving for massive sharks off the South Shore, and his ...

The Odyssey is expanding beyond the screen with two official new projects arriving after Christopher Nolan's epic hits ...

For 2,000 years sailors fled it as a sea monster. The giant oarfish is real, it's 36 feet long, and scientists barely know it ...