Twenty-four species of deep-sea crustacean, all previously unknown to science, have been formally described from the ...

Taxonomists have already named at least eight new animal species from the deep sea in the first half of 2026, spanning venomous jellyfish, tiny crustaceans, and an entirely new family of copepods.

A chemical boundary in the deep sea may have helped shape abyssal ecosystem composition based on body type. The discovery has implications for how these communities could be affected by climate change ...

Nearly three miles beneath the ocean’s surface exists a world rarely seen by human eyes. Little is known about the abyssal zone. It ranges from 9,800 to 21,300 feet in a highly pressurized environment ...