In the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich rocks coveted by miners -- and huge ...

Researchers descended more than 35,700 feet (10,900 meters) below sea level to collect biological samples that revealed ...

Fish can change their teeth quickly, which speeds up their evolution. Cichlids in African lakes show the fastest ...

Deep within Mammoth Cave, the world’s longest cave system, paleontologists have uncovered the remains of a never-before-seen ...

A critically endangered new species of killifish sampled from an ancient forest in Kenya in 2017 and 2018 has now been described. Nothobranchius sylvaticus, from the Latin meaning 'pertaining to the ...

Scientists have identified 866 new species as part of the Ocean Census, a global mission to protect and accelerate the ...

Anglers dropped several lines into the Mediterranean Sea and waited until something took the bait. Their catch — an “unusual” ...

New species of shark, sea butterfly, mud dragon, bamboo coral, water bear, octocoral, and shrimp were just some of the marine ...

The deep sea, covering approximately 65% of Earth's surface, has long been considered a biological desert. In this extreme ...