The marine biologists of the Schmidt Ocean Institute are a busy bunch. Over the last few years, scientists aboard the ...

Sea otters are surprisingly good at using tools. If they come across a particularly tough clam shell and they are desperate ...

Rare footage captures the giant phantom jellyfish off the coast of Argentina, one of the least-seen deep-sea creatures, ...

Scientists discover 97-million-year-old magnetic fossils that reveal how ancient animals used Earth’s magnetic field as a ...

Far below the waves of the Pacific, scientists are uncovering a riot of life just as industrial machines line up to scrape ...

We tend to think of animals as short-lived, especially when we compare their lifespans to human lifespans. But some species ...

Scientists have captured a rare view of one of the ocean's least understood whales—without ever seeing it. By listening to ...

Rare deep sea footage off Argentina shows a giant phantom jellyfish. Here are some facts, its size compared to humans and ...

In the late 1980s, a set of military ears listening for submarines instead picked up something far stranger: a solitary, ...

Scientists from the Schmidt Ocean Institute have uncovered an array of remarkable finds off the coast of Argentina, including ...

A Stygiomedusa gigantea, commonly known as the giant phantom jelly, was filmed at 250 meters below the surface.

We tend to expect actually dangerous things to have warnings, labels and perhaps even wavers to sign before they can be ...