The deep sea has many new discoveries waiting for us, including a newly discovered species called the "death ball" sponge.

The deep sea around Antarctica just got a whole lot weirder as researchers have discovered at least 30 previously unknown ...

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

Sponges are some of the simplest and least dangerous animals on Earth, but a new species seems to be shooting for a cooler ...

Inside deep-sea coral in the Pacific, an iridescent creature waits in ambush. Zhou Y, Zhang R, Shen C, Mao Q, Zhang M, Zhang D (2025) ZooKeys The underwater mountains of the northwest Pacific are ...

A team from The Nippon Foundation’s Nekton Ocean Census worked with Schmidt Ocean Institute’s ship Falkor to reach far ...

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