Scientists have found evidence that a 300-million-year-old sea creature previously thought to be the world's oldest octopus ...

Researchers pulled 24 tiny new creatures from a deep abyss in the central Pacific Ocean, some with long, spindly legs and ...

A strange creature from the deep ocean, Ferreiraella populi, was named by internet users and is now a scientifically ...

Somewhere between Hawai’i and Mexico, in a stretch of Pacific Ocean floor so vast and dark that more than 90% of its species don’t even have names yet, researchers just discovered 24 creatures nobody ...

Beneath the neon lights of a laser-scanning microscope, newly classified species glow in vivid greens and oranges—a far cry from the pitch-black abyss of their natural ocean floor. Researchers have ...

Earth is home to millions of species, yet a handful now exist in such low numbers that biologists can name individual animals. Illegal trade and shifting ecosystems have pushed them to the brink.

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More than 10,000 feet deep in the ocean, the seafloor is covered with what look like dark, lumpy potatoes. These polymetallic nodules, as they're known, take millions of years to form, slowly ...

"We are hopeful for her recuperation and eventual release back into the Gulf," officials said Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024, and ...