Over the course of 13 expeditions and other efforts between mid-2025 and mid-2026, scientists found hundreds of previously ...

A fascinating, unclassifiable orb found in the Gulf of Alaska is not an alien object, as some speculated, but the remains of ...

Trove of fossils discovered in Canada sheds light on "when life first became large, complex and unmistakenly animal." ...

The little blue octopus as seen from the submersible. Editor at Large Nature can be a lot of things—beautiful, bloody, sweet, savage. And sometimes it’s just plain cute. For the latest example of ...

From deep sea ghost sharks to symbiotic worms and unusual crustaceans, scientists have identified 1,121 new marine species in ...

But more than half a billion years ago this wilderness was an ancient seafloor home to the wrinkled pancakes, fleshy fronds ...

A colossal new sea predator named Tylosaurus rex has been identified from fossils found in Texas, revealing a brutal 43-foot-long hunter that ruled ancient oceans 80 million years ago. The discovery ...

Earth is home to millions of animal species today, from tiny insects and marine worms to giant whales. For many years, ...

From butterflies to blue whales, corals and worms, Earth is home to an incredible diversity of animals. How all of these ...

The abyssal zone lies nearly three miles beneath the ocean's surface and is cold, barren, and lifeless. Or so researchers ...

Deep in the ocean is a worm that makes its home inside a “glass castle,” a mysterious “ghost shark” and a carnivorous “death ...