A rarely seen oarfish appeared in shallow water in Baja California Sur, Mexico, on Feb. 9, surprising beachgoers. The ...

“There’s been a lot of work over the years on vision in a variety of fish from shallow water to the deep ... starfish that live in shallower, brighter water have and use compound eyes, no one had ...

starfish, spindly sea stars, and more. At least 58 species are entirely new to science, while 131 have previously been described. It's uncertain whether the remaining 299 deep-sea dwellers are novel ...

This predator feeds on deep-sea invertebrates and marine fish ... climate change and an introduced species of starfish, the handfish is critically endangered. The marine hatchetfish can be ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Deep in the underwater world, animals like starfish use unusual ways to escape predators. In an act called autotomy, starfish shed one or more of ...

Scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography descended thousands of meters where they likely discovered dozens of new animal species. Creatures flourish where methane gas seeps into the ocean ...