Picture this: vast underwater mountains hiding creatures that seem ripped from science fiction, animals that create their own ...

Getting enough oxygen in the water can be hard work. While fish and many other aquatic animals take air directly from the water through gills, other animals find ingenious ways to drag air bubbles ...

An expedition records 29,556 animals in the abyssal trenches and reveals how they survive the pressure and total darkness.

For generations, flapper skate was mislabelled as common skate. It was only in 2010 that the common skate was shown, ...

A night dive off Komodo Island, Indonesia, turned unforgettable when an underwater videographer came face-to-face with one of the ocean’s best masters of disguise: the marine file snake. At first ...

Dr Cherisse Du Preez, a deep-sea marine biologist with Fisheries and Oceans Canada, had led the expedition and recalled the ...

The purpose of “Aquarium After Dark” is to help visitors see some of the few animals that are particularly active at night, such as the Giant Ocean Tank’s nurse shark and green moray eel. The event ...

Yeti crabs, shrimp, sea worms and starfish. And that’s just to name a few. They live between 1,800 and 3,600 meters below the Pacific Ocean off the shores of Costa Rica. A team of scientists, led by ...

SAN JUAN ISLAND, Wash. — As dawn broke over San Juan Island, a team of scientists stood on the deck of a barge and unspooled over a mile of fiber-optic cable into the frigid waters of the Salish Sea.