The ocean holds many bizarre deep-sea monsters. As you dive 140 meters ... The Japanese spider crab is happy to welcome you to 300 meters down. These massive crustaceans are thought to live ...

Scientists said they have seen the first signs of life returning to deep sea mining tracks carved into the abyssal seabed ...

Dubbed Branchiostegus sanae, or the “Mononoke tilefish,” this deep-sea dweller lives at depths of up to 300 meters below the surface. The fish was named after San, the fierce protagonist of ...

The floor of the Calypso Deep − a 5,112-meter-deep trench in the Ionian Sea − holds one of the highest concentrations of ...

A storm, even once it has passed, can leave traces in the ocean that last for thousands of years. These consist of sediment ...

Separately, the researchers also developed a soft gripper, which can be attached to a rigid robot. It was tested in the South ...

Over a 16-month period, divers, underwater submersibles and remotely operated vehicles found 886 marine species that have all ...

These rare deep-sea fish dwell 200 to 2,000 meters deep. The frilled shark, a rare deep-sea “living fossil,” resembles an eel and was spotted in 2007 near Japan's surface, possibly due to ...

Deep-sea laboratory Photo: Wang Xin The deep-sea laboratory, weighing 600 tons, can operate at depths of up to 2,000 meters. It can accommodate a crew of six and sustain underwater operations for ...