Among the 866 newly discovered species are a guitar-shaped shark, a fan-like coral, and a venomous deep-sea snail with harpoon-like teeth, all part of an extensive effort to document marine life ...

Glass sponges create deep-sea habitats for other organisms much like coral reefs do in shallower waters. The team turned up some of its most bizarre finds in dark ocean expanses between seeps and ...

Inside deep-sea coral in the Pacific, an iridescent creature waits in ambush. Zhou Y, Zhang R, Shen C, Mao Q, Zhang M, Zhang D (2025) ZooKeys The summaries below were drafted with the help of AI ...

we need innovative ways to do deep marine science. In this photo, I’m piloting a camera-fitted ROV at the Diamond Islets in the Coral Sea off the coast of eastern Australia. My husband and ...