When most of us picture the ocean, we imagine turquoise waves, colorful reefs, and shoals of darting fish. But that’s only the surface. Venture deeper, far below the last reach of sunlight, and you ...

Scientists discover underwater mountain ranges, golden towers of coral, and never-before-seen sea creatures.

NEW YORK — 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 ...

As you get closer to the bottom of the ocean, it gets darker, denser and stranger. All light from the surface has been absorbed, and only the most adapted species can navigate the lack of oxygen in ...

Thousands of feet deep in the South Pacific Ocean, a pair of scientists piloted a submersible through the dark waters and scanned the seafloor. Some pale creatures with dozens of tentacles caught ...

For all of humanity’s ventures to outer space, we’ve yet to see 99.999% of the deep-sea floor. In the latest subaquatic news, researchers discovered some 4,000 marine species, 88% of which were new ...

A group of “rarely seen” Gervais’ beaked whales was recently spotted near Madeira, a Portuguese archipelago, photos show. Screengrab from the Magic Dolphin ecotour agency A mysterious group of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A rarely seen giant phantom jellyfish — a deep-sea creature with arms that can stretch up to 10 meters long — has been captured on ...

The elusive deep-sea creature typically lives over 1,000 meters below sea level, but was seen around 250 meters below sea level Scientists filmed a rare giant phantom jellyfish off Argentina during a ...

A rarely seen giant phantom jellyfish — a deep-sea creature with arms that can stretch up to 10 meters long — has been captured on camera off the coast of Argentina, offering scientists a rare glimpse ...