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 ...

A mysterious deep-sea squid filmed 4.1 km below the Pacific can disguise itself as the ocean floor, raising new questions about hidden marine life and what we still don’t know.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock Researchers off the coast of Argentina made an incredible discovery while exploring the area's deep-sea ...

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

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 ...

Deep sea expedition off Caribbean islands captured images of unique corals sponges fish species never before documented ...

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 ...

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 ...

The new finding, made by researchers in a new era for marine biology, is the first such discovery of footage of an undescribed species of whiplash squid; this creature is capable of having an ...

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 ...

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