Something extraordinary might be happening on a moon millions of miles from Earth. Imagine a world where sunlight never ...

The Schmidt Ocean Institute's ROV SuBastian — a robot fitted with a slew of scientific instruments and capable of descending ...

Microbes near volcanic vents use a secret metabolic shortcut, the rTCA cycle, to survive extreme conditions and support ...

STRANGE creatures dredged up from the Antarctica seafloor by scientists may have previously been undiscovered. Australian ...

A new DNA probes allow for efficient surveying of the hidden lives of squids and octopuses in the deep sea. This development ...

Imagine a place on our planet so vast, so mysterious, that it has no owner. Picture a realm teeming with bizarre life forms, ...

Researchers created DNA tools that detect deep-sea marine animals like squids and octopuses by analyzing ocean water.

Scientists on an icebreaker ship have captured a number of weird and wacky animals from Antarctica's ocean floor, including a ...

Images of a baby colossal squid this week reminds us that the deep sea is an almost inexhaustible source of awe.

Two research expeditions have captured the first footage of two squid species — a colossal squid and a glacial glass squid — swimming in the deep sea.