Introducing demon cavefish (Demogorgonichthys arcanus); the rare eyeless predators that have been hiding in plain sight below ...

Gérard Zinzindohoué. Researchers used sonar and underwater imaging systems to locate a mesophotic coral garden that ...

Deep-diving insect larvae are challenging a long-held idea about why there are almost no insects in the ocean, thanks to sturdy air sacs. In Lake Malawi in East Africa, billions of lake fly larvae ...

People who haven’t been to Alabama don’t realize just how many caves the state contains. Over 4,200 caves of varying sizes and depths dot the Alabama landscape. Many of these caves contain strange ...

Some 60 years ago scientists documented a coral reef off the coast of Benin in West Africa that they presumed was already ...

Emmett Gowen and I were baking under a torrid Gulf sun, that spring morning, while small croakers stole our live shrimp one ...

New research shows that deep-sea biodiversity has not fully recovered despite more than two decades without bottom trawling, reinforcing the case for protecting vulnerable ecosystems before damage ...

Scientists first identified the possible location during the 1960s, while surveying potential fishing areas, but assumed that ...

Explore 25 Earth locations that look like another planet! Discover bizarre landscapes, from Martian deserts to icy moons, ...

Deep beneath the oceans' crashing waves lies a hidden landscape more alien than many of us could ever dream. Below the Atlantic Ocean lies the Doldrums Megatransform and Fracture Zone, a remote ...

Extreme habitats call for extreme adaptations, many of which look mind-bogglingly strange to us. And the deep sea has got to be one of the richest seams for a biologist wanting to seek these oddball ...

The Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) in Kochi in Kerala has discovered a new deep-sea fish from the Arabian Sea off southern Kerala. The newly identified fish belongs to the genus ...