An unusual sea slug with a large hood, a tail with fingerlike projections and glowing bioluminescence has been found living ...

Photo Credit: NASA Oxygen-starved ocean “dead zones,” where fish and animals cannot survive, have been expanding in the open ocean and coastal waters for several decades as a result of human ...

R esearchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) have unveiled a new species of sea slug, Bathydevius ...

Landsat satellites have gone beyond observing Earth’s land by enabling new methods to measure ocean depth in shallow coastal ...

A new glowing nudibranch species is the first known to swim through the ocean’s midnight zone and has unique adaptations for ...

“Only recently have cameras become capable of filming bioluminescence in high-resolution and in full color,” Haddock added.

It's named Bathydevius due to its "devious" nature that fooled the scientists at first, while caudactylus refers to the ...

China’s Zhurong rover has found compelling evidence of a shoreline from a short-lived ancient ocean on Mars. This new ...

New satellite tracking data reveals the elusive megamouth shark's vertical and horizontal movement patterns, offering a rare ...

The ocean layer these extremes affect is called the twilight zone—between 200 and 1,000 meters deep. These depths are home to many important fish species and plankton. In fact, this zone has ...