Scientists have filmed a juvenile colossal squid in the wild for the first time at 600 meters deep in the South Atlantic.

The deep sea has always been a realm of mystery, hiding creatures that defy imagination. Among these enigmatic beings is the colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni), a creature shrouded in myth ...

The footage was taken during a survey of Timor-Leste’s deep sea environment, a South-East Asian nation that takes up half the ...

Four scientists, aflutter with discovery, announced Tuesday that they were the first to film two rare squid species alive, in their natural environments. They were part of a remote ...

If thalassophobia's your thing, then you might want to look away now, as a pair of divers were able to capture footage of a rarely seen eight-foot (2.5-metre) giant squid while swimming off the west ...

A small fish only known to the Red Sea, V. mabahiss lives deep underwater and is seldom encountered by people, so much so that it has no common name. The findings from this study will provide ...

Four kilometres below the surface of the Tasman Sea is a strange world inhabited by even stranger creatures. In its autumn ...

From wallaby to pangolin, let's explore the fascinating world of rarely-seen creatures, some of whom are on the ...

IN the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich rocks coveted by miners, and huge numbers ...

Marine life in the deep ocean can take decades to recover from the impact of deep-sea mining for rare metals ... the DNA – the genes – of deep-sea fish. This is published in the journal ...