Commercial trawlers off the southern coast of India caught several unfamiliar-looking eels in January 2024 and gave the specimens to scientists, Paramasivam Kodeeswaran and T. T. Ajith Kumar wrote in ...

New images of deep sea wonders are surprisingly adorable. A very rare squid, the ‘Casper’ octopus, two ‘flying spaghetti monsters’, and more were also documented on this expedition.

Researchers said they named the new species after the Nansei Islands near the Okinawa Trough where it was first discovered ...

Terrifying images show fishermen fighting for their life in a stormy sea after their trawler capsized - leaving four dead and six people still missing. The boat with 14 crew went down off the ...

Trawlers looked at the 2-foot-long animal in their net. They didn’t know it, but they’d just discovered a new species. Trawlers off the coast of southern Japan dropped their nets in the ...

Deep-sea trawlers dragging their nets over the ocean bed are wrecking a precious find of cold-water coral in the North Atlantic. British marine biologists say that damage is being wreaked at ...

Trawlers looked at the 2-foot-long animal in their net. They didn’t know it, but they’d just discovered a new species. Trawlers off the coast of southern Japan dropped their nets in the ...

It looked like a shadow at first — but after several minutes, a rare species of deep-sea shark had swum by an underwater ...

In this case, deep-sea ecologists at the IMR already suspected trawl fishing operations were damaging reefs, but they couldn’t prove it—they didn’t even know where most of the reefs were.

Trawlers looked at the 2-foot-long animal in their net. They didn’t know it, but they’d just discovered a new species. Trawlers off the coast of southern Japan dropped their nets in the ...

Trawlers looked at the 2-foot-long animal in their net. They didn’t know it, but they’d just discovered a new species. Trawlers off the coast of southern Japan dropped their nets in the ...