Beneath the ocean's surface lies a world of perpetual darkness, home to some of Earth's most bizarre and fascinating creatures. These deep-sea inhabitants have evolved extraordinary adaptations to ...

Life down there plays by a completely different set of rules, with creatures that have adapted in ways we can barely imagine.

A new study led by an international team, including researchers from The University of Western Australia, has discovered that ...

This strange new deep-sea creature might be a brand-new species to humans, but discovering it in an online fish market was a ...

Limpets live in one of the most extreme environments on Earth, where highly acidic waters dissolve their shells, requiring the snail to continuously rebuild new protective layers. Found at 3,053 m (10 ...

Animals living in one of Earth’s most extreme environments—beneath the bottom of the sea—are not just making the best of the situation, according to new research. The animals are actually ...

The extra data will also help researchers estimate how thick Callisto's ocean layer is, as well as the thickness of the ice shell that rests on top of it. NASA and the European Space Agency ...

Most are unicellular, but with features that disqualify them from grouping with other types of life like animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, and archaea. In the ocean, some protists function like ...