Lanice spongicola lives on a glass sponge, a deep-sea sponge with a skeleton made of silica, that rises from hard rock. The ...

Our observations of life in the deep contain a trove of important information about ocean health, but more importantly, help ...

A new glass sponge species is so strange that has been given the name named Advhena magnifica, which means "magnificent alien ...

Dive in and meet some of the most stunning deep-sea animals that MBARI encountered in 2025. This year, our team spotted ultra ...

SpongeBob SquarePants and his starfish best friend, Patrick Star, aren’t such cartoonish creatures after all. According to an image taken by a marine biologist doing remote deep-sea exploration this ...

Some of the animals may be new species and include sponges, crustaceans, and mollusks. Scientists hope the region's rich diversity can be conserved. Much of the ocean is still a mystery, so often when ...

Photograper Julio A. Díaz. The new discoveries will increase the ecological importance of the Mallorca channel seamounts and the littoral caves, providing compelling arguments for the Spanish ...

INDIANA, USA — In reef caves off the Puerto Rican coast, not far from areas where sunlight may still trickle down through toasty Caribbean waters, lie contingencies of small but mighty creatures, ...

Rising mountain peaks and sharp rock formations cover the ocean floor, with corals, sponges, fish, and tons of sea creatures ...

A loveable Tripp DeMille is cast as the bumbling, naive Patrick Star. DeMille nails the pink seastar’s deep voice and ...

Marine researchers say they discovered more than 100 new species and several previously unidentified seamounts during an expedition in the southeast Pacific, off the coast of Chile, over January and ...