Scientists sent a robot two miles below California and found a bigfin squid; it was the first live Northeast Pacific sighting
Photo credit: Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute Two miles below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, off the…
This Giant Deep-sea Creature Survives Five Years Without Food, Thanks to a Borrowed Bacterial Gene
The giant deep-sea isopod. Image credits: NOAA/Wikimedia Commons In the dark depths of the ocean, food can be…
Ocean Census project discovers 1,121 new species of ocean life around the world in one year
Thousands of previously unknown species have been discovered lurking and thriving in our oceans, as part of a…
No ‘doomsday’ for Cabo San Lucas after rare double oarfish encounter
When two serpent-like oarfish washed ashore alive last week in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, there was more excitement…