The last sighting of the glass octopus was in 2021, and scientists still don't know much about this highly elusive species.

In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...

A deep-sea octopus, Muusoctopus, wins “Mollusc of the Year 2025” as its genome is set to be sequenced for the first time.

For over a century, the colossal squid has been one of the deep sea’s most slippery enigmas. Known mostly through bits and ...

Environmental group puts in symbolic £1 bid as UK licences auctioned off Greenpeace UK lawyers have written to the UK ...

Imagine a world where sunlight never touches the ocean floor, where bizarre creatures drift through inky black waters, and ...

Stunned scientists capture first video of colossal squid in the deep - ‘These unforgettable moments continue to remind us ...

Imagine descending into the ocean’s deep, dark twilight zone, a realm straight out of science fiction. Here, in a place where ...

Researchers created DNA tools that detect deep-sea marine animals like squids and octopuses by analyzing ocean water.

“Most of our deep-sea exploration equipment is large, noisy and uses bright lights if we are trying to film animals,” Bolsted writes on The Conversation. Dr. Jyotika Virmani, Schmidt Ocean ...

Four kilometres below the surface of the Tasman Sea is a strange world inhabited by even stranger creatures. In its autumn ...