Going without food for even a single day feels difficult for most people, so the idea of surviving five years between meals ...

Scientists from Argentina’s national research council completed a 20-day submarine expedition in the summer of 2025 that ...

The enormous deep-sea cousins of your garden’s pill bugs can go five years without food. A gene they pilfered from bacteria ...

Benji Jones is a senior environmental correspondent at Vox, covering biodiversity loss and climate change. Before joining Vox, he was a senior energy reporter at Business Insider. Benji previously ...

Before recent findings, goblin sharks were only recorded after being hooked on a fishing line and hauled to the surface, dying shortly after.

Scientists spotted the enigmatic creatures in 2019 and again in 2024, marking the first times they've been observed alive in the wild. The sightings drastically expand the animals' known geographic an ...

The researchers saw many strange animals — many believed to be new to science — living off the whale carcasses.

Deep-sea creatures in the trenches of Japan's volcanically active "Ring of Fire" belt are rapidly adapting to immense depths, scientists found. These observations were part of a crewed submersible ...

Scientists pulled 40,000 fossil spine fragments from the deep ocean floor and traced sea urchins living there for 104 million ...

The bottom of the ocean has barely been explored, but every journey to the deep reveals wondrous new lifeforms. As underwater mining gains momentum, we risk destroying one of the Earth’s last great wi ...

These spheres from the abyss conceal creatures with startling biology.