Beds of Bathymodiolus mussels provide important habitat for other deep-sea critters, including sea stars, scaleworms and limpets. NOAA Ocean Exploration. The deep sea is the large ...

Quick Take Hagfish slime is a rapid-deploy chemical defense that can clog a shark’s gills in seconds. The slime’s strength ...

The deep sea is cold, dark and under immense pressure. Yet life has found a way to prevail there, in the form of some of ...

In the frozen darkness of the Arctic Ocean lives one of the strangest animals on Earth. The narwhal’s spiraled tusk looks mythical - but its biology is even more bizarre than its appearance. Adapted ...

The Mediterranean's first sanctuary for dolphins that have lived in captivity will open off Italy next year, as demand for re-homing rises with the closure of marine parks across Europe. It's a scene ...

The blanket octopus uses venomous man o’ war tentacles as weapons, doubling its reach and surviving in the open ocean.

The remarkable discovery of animal life beneath the seafloor shows that life finds a way even in the most extreme environments, potentially boosting hopes for finding life beyond Earth. Reading time 4 ...

Some dolphins in Shark Bay use sea sponges as tools while hunting, revealing a rare example of learned behavior passed across ...

A team of scientists digging up some of the Earth’s oldest rocks has uncovered new chemical evidence that Earth’s first animals were likely ancestors of the modern sea sponge. The discovery relies on ...

Is the sea turtle your spirit animal? The sea turtle has been a powerful symbol for many cultures around the world for centuries. In some cultures, the turtle is seen as a symbol of good luck and ...