Scientists discover underwater mountain ranges, golden towers of coral, and never-before-seen sea creatures.

In 2025, 603,963 litter items were removed and recorded by volunteers, with an average of 141 items found per 100m, compared ...

Fish are aquatic, gill-bearing, cold-blooded vertebrates with fins and tails for swimming and covered in scales. Recently, a ...

After years of deep-sea sleuthing, National Geographic Explorer Katy Croff Bell has created a treasure map. It’s not drawn on ...

The ocean is still one of the biggest mysteries on Earth, and the deeper you go, the stranger it gets. Far below the surface, ...

Lurking in the depths of the ocean are countless species that have never been seen by humans before. As part of a project to ...

Scientists discovered 24 new deep-sea species, including one from a completely new branch of life in the Pacific Ocean.

Researchers identified 24 new creatures and an entire superfamily of species in the Pacific, all while NOAA moves to ...

In a remarkable deep-sea breakthrough, researchers have discovered 24 new species of amphipods in the Pacific’s ...

Glittery sea worms and sea squirts fit for "The Lord of the Rings" universe might sound like pure fantasy, but they're very ...

Researchers at MBARI, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, have been exploring this hidden world for years. Using ...

Beneath the neon lights of a laser-scanning microscope, newly classified species glow in vivid greens and oranges—a far cry from the pitch-black abyss of their natural ocean floor. Researchers have ...