A world-first study led by Museums Victoria Research Institute has revealed that beneath the cold, dark, pressurized world of ...

From frightful fangtooth fish and vampire squid to coffinfish and sinister sea urchins, plenty of strange and scary creatures lurk in the dark, cold depths of the ocean. Check out these spooky photos.

Vintage photos show how deep sea diving and exploration has evolved over the years. ... Attached to its shoulders are two 1,000 watt lamps to see in the dark down below.

The bizarre bodies of deep sea fish are the stuff of nightmares, but their peculiar shapes also help the animals survive in the dark and cold ocean depths. ... [In Photos: Spooky Deep-Sea Creatures] ...

Pictures show creepy deep-sea animals, some never before seen, discovered near islands off the coast of Australia By Marianne Guenot ...

The drawings, by celebrated marine artist Richard Ellis, appear in his book Deep Atlantic: Life, Death, and Exploration in the Abyss (Knopf, 1996). Click on any of the pictures below to see the ...

Scientists are learning how these "super black fish," a catch-all term for dark deep-sea creatures, make their bodies effectively disappear. (Read about a fish that lives a record-breaking five ...

The deep sea is cold and dark. The pressure is immense, and meals are hard to come by. Some of the very features that make deep-sea critters appear bizarre to us actually help them survive in this ...

The second video, below, shows marine photographer Gavin Thurston descending into the lightless deep sea. Here, coming across bizarre creatures, like a curious squid or two, is normal.

In a new study, scientists report that deep-sea corals that lived 540 million years ago may have been the first animals to glow, far earlier than previously thought.

New research suggests that polymetallic nodules found 13,000 feet deep produce “dark oxygen” by ... The researchers hypothesize that this could be a source of oxygen for deep-sea ... lighter. Many ...

Rare metals on deep sea and ocean floors miles below the surface produce "dark oxygen," and mining these minerals could cause potentially harmful changes to the marine ecosystem, according to new ...