After years of deep-sea sleuthing, National Geographic Explorer Katy Croff Bell has created a treasure map. It’s not drawn on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There are thousands of crab species, each with its own unique features. While we think of crabs as beach creatures, there are many ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A deep-diving robot that chiseled into the rocky Pacific seabed at a spot where two of the immense plates comprising Earth's outer shell meet has unearthed a previously unknown ...

In the mysterious depths of the ocean, hydrothermal vents serve as unique ecosystems that harbor extraordinary life forms. Among these are green-glowing bacteria that thrive in extreme conditions, ...

A new type of jellyfish has been discovered at deep-sea hydrothermal vents in the Pacific Ocean. A new “black smoker”–an undersea mineral chimney emitting hot springs of iron-darkened water–has been ...

“It’s something never seen before,” marine biologist Cherisse Du Preez told Science Post France, when her team’s submersible lights fell upon more than two million golden eggs strewn across the ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers led by Ryuhei Nakamura at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) in Japan and The Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) of Tokyo Institute of Technology ...

Tubeworm larvae, sea snails, and marine worms were uncovered living in tiny caves underneath the ocean floor, revealing life is interconnected below and above it. An eelpout swims by a tower of ...

Meteor impacts may have helped spark life on Earth, creating hot, chemical-rich environments where the first living cells ...

There are thousands of crab species, each with its own unique features. While we think of crabs as beach creatures, there are many species that thrive in the deep sea. One example is the yeti crab, ...