Close up image of a greenland shark taken at the floe edge of the Admiralty Inlet, Nunavut. Credits: Hemming1952. “You see it ...

Read how ancient Greenland sharks' bodies preserve their eyesight for hundreds of years and what this means for older humans.

For more than 60 years, the ginkgo-toothed beaked whale (Mesoplodon ginkgodens) was one of the ocean’s greatest mysteries.

Here at the southern tip of the Great Barrier Reef, you’re practically guaranteed to see them. Descending toward this ...

These "total monsters of fishes" are extinct today, though new clues about their lives come from CT scans and their closest ...

“A rare Mola mola (ocean sunfish) washed up on our shore at Cardiff State Beach today,” San Diego State Lifeguards stated ...

Nature always has the potential to outdo human imagination. From across oceans, forests, deserts, and isolated islands, there ...

Far below the Pacific, a volcano long written off as geologically dead has turned out to be both active and teeming with life ...

The deep sea also harbours some of the most intriguing and alien-like species in existence, yet for several centuries, these ...

New Scientist writers and contributors have chosen their top science-y books, films, TV shows, music, video games and board ...

Far below the ocean’s surface, where sunlight disappears and pressure reaches crushing levels, some of the planet’s strangest ...

A recent video shows a massive bluntnose sixgill shark emerging from the deep sea. This ancient species, predating dinosaurs, ...