"It was an unsolved mystery, as we know that plastic debris should remain floating on the sea surface. Now we have a deep ...

A new deep-sea coral species in the tropical western Pacific that resembles a highly recognizable character from Star Wars ...

But after years of meticulous research, teams of scientists, including MBARI senior scientist Steven Haddock, who led that ...

The bumpy snailfish is one of three newly identified deep-sea snailfish species described by MBARI collaborators at SUNY ...

The deep sea is home to some of the weirdest creatures on Earth, from ghostly elder fish to carnivorous harp sponges.

The adorable fish has garnered attention, but the study also describes two other fish that were discovered in the deep waters.

The bumpy snailfish, discovered 10,000 feet down off the coast of California, shows that not all denizens of the abyss are ...

September 2025 / Kiel. An international research team led by the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel has ...

Scattered across an abyssal plain known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) are polymetallic nodules that are a potato-sized ...

Meet the bumpy snailfish—described by scientists as "adorable"—as well as the dark snailfish and sleek snailfish, all of ...

A team of researchers, including an expert from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, discovered a new species of deep-sea coral ...

Researchers have discovered three new species of deep-sea snailfish off the coast of California, including the bumpy ...