A hefty, armor-plated crustacean pulled from fish markets and deep-sea trawls off Vietnam has been confirmed as a species new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. orange roughy fish on ice at market - Fotokon/Shutterstock It's long been a staple on seafood menus and in frozen fish fillets at ...

But their habitat is threatened by bottom trawling in the region and Trump’s plan to expand seafloor mining ...

A single expedition to a cluster of remote seamounts in the Indian Ocean turned up 149 species new to science, ranging across corals, mollusks and deep-water fish gathered from underwater peaks that ...

Strange deep-sea fish found walking sideways and backwards on ocean floor - Most fish known to walk on seafloor only do so ...

The deep sea, covering approximately 65% of Earth's surface, has long been considered a biological desert. In this extreme environment—particularly in the hadal zone at depths greater than 6,000 ...

Researchers from Sun Yat-sen University and Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai) recently ...

These three fish are freaks, phantoms and mysteries of the deep. Here’s what we’ve learned from the rare glimpses we’ve had of their lives. The deep sea is one of Earth’s final frontiers. Given its ...

A newly described species of ghost shark, Rhinochimaera costaricana, has been identified from deep waters off Costa Rica ...

The deep sea is cold, dark and under immense pressure. Yet life has found a way to prevail there, in the form of some of Earth's strangest creatures. Since deep-sea critters have adapted to near ...

The fish, Scalicus engyceros, is a species of armored searobin, a group of fish known for weird anatomy. Their bodies are ...

A deep-sea anglerfish was recently caught on camera in a rare moment, delighting social media users while scaring others. Condrik Tenerife, a Spanish conservation organization, and marine photographer ...