Scientists are revolutionizing how new marine species are described through the Ocean Species Discoveries initiative. Using advanced lab techniques, researchers recently unveiled 14 new species from ...

The expedition also revealed a new species of armoured and iridescent scale worms, called Eulagisca sp. nov., as well as ...

This newly-discovered species is being called the “death-ball sponge” for its appendages, which end in orbs and are covered ...

Scientists are speeding up the naming of deep-sea species before they vanish, using new tools to uncover life from below the ...

There, in the depths of Sulfur Cave, a team of scientists has discovered what they think might be the largest known spider ...

The second expedition took researchers to the Southern Ocean’s Bellingshausen Sea, off West Antarctica. The team was the ...

Researchers are not even halfway through analyzing the thousands of samples collected from the Southern Ocean, but they've ...

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Deep underground in a dark, sulfuric cave on the border between Albania and Greece, scientists have made an incredible ...

Thirty previously unknown deep-sea species, including a carnivorous “death-ball” sponge, have been confirmed from one of the ...

The state Department of Wildlife Conservation updates its action plan every 10 years to remain eligible for federal wildlife ...