Whales spend their lives moving enormous amounts of organic material through the world’s oceans. Their bodies contain vast ...

Imagine you are on some distant beach centuries ago and something huge emerges from the depths of the ocean. It has a longer body than most boats, lined with dozens of razor sharp teeth and eyes ...

Scientists say they’ve found more than 1,100 new marine species over the last year, emphasizing how unexplored the ocean really is.

Just like trucks, planes occasionally find their way to the bottom of the ocean. For example, deep-sea divers in Oahu, Hawaii ...

Here’s a sentence you probably didn’t expect to read today: Thousands of strangers on the internet just collectively named a deep-sea creature that lives on sunken wood at the bottom of the ocean, and ...

The deep sea is home to some of the weirdest creatures on Earth, from ghostly elder fish to carnivorous harp sponges. Sometimes, scientists discover more humble creatures that are so tiny that they go ...

Fireflies, or “lightening bugs,” which is what I used to call them in Illinois, glow by a process known as “bioluminescence.” All living cells have some level of bioluminescence, each with their own ...

(Brian Wolly) Food can be scarce in the deep waters off Australia. To clutch its prey, this dragonfish uses sharp rows of teeth that cover even parts of its tongue. The fish is one of thousands of ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Scientists have recovered several bizarre blob-like sea creatures in ...

Meet the “ghost fish,” a phantom of the abyss. Here’s how we found the first ever proof of its existence just a few years ago. The deep sea is a part of the world that very few humans get the chance ...

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