A team from The Nippon Foundation’s Nekton Ocean Census worked with Schmidt Ocean Institute’s ship Falkor to reach far beneath Antarctic waters, where they found/discovered and recovered, with the ...

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 ...

Learn more about the most exciting species found around the world in 2025, from the deep sea to the western Himalayas. Even after centuries of scientific exploration, Earth is still full of surprises.

Researchers in Hawaii used structures that mimic coral reefs to study aquatic life — and they found four new species. The new species are all types of sponges, “grubby little” creatures that are often ...

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 ...

Scientists found “massive” plant-covered sea animals at South Pacific reef and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo shows a representative island in French Polynesia. Photo from Gabor Koszegi ...