The twilight zone of the Pacific just got the teeniest bit less mysterious. Scientists from the California Academy of ...

When a ship sinks, it is often in tragic circumstances. Beneath the waves, however, a different story unfolds: shipwrecks ...

Who ever said the ocean keeps its secrets in darkness? In the top layer of the twilight zone in Guam, 300 feet deep in the ocean, scientists have just revealed a wealth of bizarre creatures in such ...

Researchers retrieved reef monitoring devices that had been placed in deep coral reefs in Guam. The devices were placed up to 330 feet below the surface.

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

For deep reef divers, descending into the ocean’s mesophotic layer can feel like exploring the moon. Discovering never-before ...

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

David lives in Brooklyn where he's spent more than a decade covering all things edible, including meal kit services, food subscriptions, kitchen tools and cooking tips. David earned his BA from ...

The extent of coral reefs worldwide has played a key role in Earth’s climate in the past 250 million years – but not in the way you might expect. Coral reefs are net producers of carbon dioxide ...

A new international study released in Communications Biology has examined rare coral reef environments in Papua New Guinea to better understand how ocean acidification may affect coral ecosystems as ...