In the inky blackness nearly 10,000 meters below the Pacific Ocean, scientists have discovered strange animals that may hold vital clues about life beyond Earth. Surviving entirely without sunlight, ...

Beryl Rappaport, a microbiologist completing her Ph.D. at Syracuse University, and a team of researchers identified a new eukaryote, a type of amoeba whose cells have a membrane-bound nucleus, that ...

Only a scattering of light penetrates the deep water, more than 300 feet beneath the ocean surface off the coast of Guam. It’s like twilight to the human eye, even in the middle of the day. This part ...

An ocean-mining company has funded some of the most comprehensive scientific studies of the deep seabed to date, and peer-reviewed results have begun to emerge. A collage of foraminifera, a kind of ...

Legend once had it that the huge, three-toed footprints scattered across the central highlands of Bolivia came from supernaturally strong monsters - capable of sinking their claws even into solid ...

GUAM — Only a scattering of light penetrates the deep water, more than 300 feet beneath the ocean surface off the coast of Guam. It's like twilight to the human eye, even in the middle of the day.

As companies hunt for metals in the depths of the ocean, scientists are taking inventory of every species that lives there. Mining the deep sea involves a suction mechanisms that could disturb or ...

Scientists found “dragon”-like creatures with “long” legs mating at a cave in Thailand and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Ruttapon Srisonchai via Srisonchai, Srikampha, Benchapong ...