Sea creatures have adapted to help them thrive in extreme environments. Unusual features allow them to live thousands of feet below the surface. Underwater robots give researchers a glimpse at some of ...

The supple little creatures look like ghosts as they wriggle around in the darkness. When they move closer into frame, it’s almost as if they’re flashing goofy grins for the camera. While scientists ...

An underwater voyage has revealed a network of creatures thriving at the bottom of deep-sea ocean trenches. In these extreme environments, the crushing pressure, scant food and lack of sunlight can ...

In the icy, lightless depths of the Pacific Ocean, a fish lurks that seems straight out of a science-fiction movie. The barreleye fish (Macropinna microstoma) is equipped with tubular green eyes ...

The waters around Australia are hiding some bizarre creatures in the depths, and some of them look like they're not from this planet. Hegseth’s changing story on the Caribbean strike Teens arrested in ...

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With dagger-like teeth and a hinged jaw, the viperfish uses bioluminescence to lure and ambush prey in the ocean’s dark depths. This predator glows in near-infrared, invisible to most animals, ...

Researchers have uncovered surprising evidence that the deep ocean’s carbon-fixing engine works very differently than long assumed. While ammonia-oxidizing archaea were thought to dominate carbon ...