Scientists discover underwater mountain ranges, golden towers of coral, and never-before-seen sea creatures.

Scientists recorded the first shark in Antarctic waters when a sleeper shark passed a deep-sea camera in near-freezing darkness.

Wildlife from the ocean's deepest trenches has a bit of a reputation on land, either due to their inherently alarming appearances or historic associations with bad tidings. However, The New York Times ...

Somewhere in the North Atlantic, more than a kilometer beneath its surface, a cold-water coral reef stretches across an ...

This is the moment deep sea explorers captured an incredibly elusive creature on camera – the giant phantom jellyfish. Eerie footage shows the rare animal, which has only been filmed around a dozen ...

An octopus moves around deep-sea corals at 1,612 meters (about 5,288 feet) during a remotely operated vehicle, or ROV, dive near the historic HMS ‘Challenger's’ oceanographic station 320, where the ...

As of 2026, more than 80% of the world’s oceans are still unmapped and unexplored. We know more about the face of the moon ...

A lot of weird-looking life-forms lurk in the deep sea, and this year we got some spectacularly close looks at several of them, including a goofy Doctor Who–esque octopus, alienlike Antarctic dwellers ...

When an unfamiliar pink fish appeared more than 10,000 feet down in the outer reaches of Monterey Canyon in 2019, scientists with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute were able to document the ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. California scientists captured rare footage of a seven-arm octopus eating a jellyfish. Almost a half-mile below ...

Meet the “ghost fish,” a phantom of the abyss. Here’s how we found the first ever proof of its existence just a few years ago. The deep sea is a part of the world that very few humans get the chance ...

A recent Schmidt Ocean Institute expedition off the coast of Uruguay discovered at least 30 suspected new species and explored a sunken warship. By Popular Science Team Published Oct 4, 2025 10:00 AM ...