Their residence attracts shrimp, fish and many other creatures. These deep-sea oases are just some of many areas of the ocean floor that scientists are only beginning to explore, discovering new ...

The cephalopod was first discovered in 1925 when scientists found arm fragments from two squid in the belly of a sperm whale.

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...

Images of a baby colossal squid this week reminds us that the deep sea is an almost inexhaustible source of awe.

Two research expeditions have captured the first footage of two squid species — a colossal squid and a glacial glass squid — swimming in the deep sea.

Roy P. Mackal — the controversial and colorful University of Chicago scientist whose study of monsters caught the attention of the New York Times and People magazine — died in 2013. In his effort to ...

Researchers and crewmembers aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute's Falkor (too), "seized upon the moment" and were richly ...

Iceberg A-84 broke off from Antarctica and revealed a thriving community of sea creatures underneath. Now, researchers are curious as to how these species have survived. Fracturing icebergs are only ...

Scientists have discovered a “thriving ecosystem” of strange deep sea creatures on a newly exposed seafloor after an iceberg broke off near the Antarctic. The area, which had never before been ...