Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) researchers have shown large sharks can spend hours deep in the oceans' ...

But after years of meticulous research, teams of scientists, including MBARI senior scientist Steven Haddock, who led that ...

Meet the bumpy snailfish—described by scientists as "adorable"—as well as the dark snailfish and sleek snailfish, all of ...

Life is strange in the deep sea. For the male spotted ratfish — a ghostly relative of sharks, also known as the chimaera — it ...

The bumpy snailfish, discovered 10,000 feet down off the coast of California, shows that not all denizens of the abyss are ...

Oarfish can grow longer than 20 feet and normally live in a deep part of the ocean called the mesopelagic zone, where light cannot reach. A rarely seen deep sea fish resembling a serpent was found ...

Mesopelagic fish, long overlooked in ocean chemistry, are now proven to excrete carbonate minerals much like their shallow-water counterparts—despite living in dark, high-pressure depths. Using the ...

A new study offers the first direct evidence that deep-dwelling mesopelagic fish, which account for up to 94% of global fish biomass, excrete carbonate minerals at rates comparable to shallow-water ...