Researchers from the Physics and Biology Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) have discovered two ...

Fewer people have been to the deepest parts of the ocean than have walked on the surface of the moon. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Center for Transformational Play are hoping a virtual ...

Last year, African giant pouched rats like Carolina prevented nearly 400,000 new cases of a deadly disease. It's possible because of their extreme sense of smell. Carolina, an African giant ...

Many people refer to orcas as “killer whales“, and for good reason. They are the ultimate top dogs of the ocean, able to take down large whales and even great white sharks! But what about humans — ...

This ecosystem is home to zooplankton – tiny animals that drift with ocean currents – and micronekton, which includes small fish, squid and crustaceans that rely on zooplankton for food. For delicate ...

A calving iceberg exposed a region that never before had been seen by human eyes, revealing a vibrant, thriving ecosystem ...

Rarely found in the Southern Ocean, a 2.5-metre sunfish washed up on WA's Lowlands Beach between Denmark and Albany could be a sign of a warm current moving south, a marine ecologist says.

Researchers from Schmidt Ocean Institute reached the previously inaccessible area in January, and became the first to investigate it, bringing back incredible images. Here, an octopus rests on the ...

But don’t expect to find an actual underground ocean—it’s not liquid water. Instead, the building blocks of water are trapped inside rock buried deep in the Earth’s mantle. If confirmed, this could be ...

Researchers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute noticed the sea spider ... Species that exhibit deep-sea gigantism include the colossal squid, the big red jellyfish, the deepwater stingray, and ...

Scientists have filmed a giant deep-sea spider crawling on the Southern Ocean floor, shedding more light on the diversity ... Species that exhibit deep-sea gigantism include the colossal squid, the ...