Look no further than the depths of earth’s oceans to discover mind-blowing creatures that look like they come from another ...

The brilliant iridescent hues found in ammolite come from tiny air gaps in the fossils’ layers, a new study finds.

Paleontologists have discovered a three-eyed creature with a pencil sharpener-like mouth that roamed the sea for prey more than 500 million years ago. The fossilized remains of one Mosura fentoni — ...

An underwater voyage has revealed a network of creatures thriving at the bottom of deep-sea ocean trenches, researchers said in a newly published paper. The deep-sea trenches, also called Hadal ...

When thinking about the ancient animals of Earth, you likely picture fish, birds, and dinosaurs. But a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that the ...

Despite everything stacked against them, a variety of life thrives at ocean depths with bone-crushing pressure, low-oxygen, no light, and immensely cold temperatures. A new study analyzes the ...

The first animals to inhabit the Earth may have been sea sponges, a new study by geochemists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has suggested. In their work, the researchers linked ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — A new species living at extreme ocean depths in Monterey Bay Canyon was discovered by researchers with Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI). Photographs and videos ...