Picture a home so beautiful it looks like it’s made of glass—delicate, intricate, shimmering. Now imagine discovering that ...

Two new worm species were found living inside a real underwater "glass castle." ...

They say just 0.001 percent of the deep ocean has been directly observed, representing a speck on our planet that’s just larger than Rhode Island. It’s hardly surprising, then, that when we do take a ...

We’re all familiar with La Jolla’s sea lions, harbor seals, orcas, garibaldi and seabirds. But in this series of stories called Species of the Month, the Light sheds light on other, lesser-known ...

What happens when the ocean’s giants die? Despite their blubbery bodies, whales eventually sink to the bottom in what are called “whale falls,” becoming an essential source of food, nutrients and ...

Scientists scooped some muck from the depths of the South China Sea and discovered a new species of creature hidden inside, a study said. Getty Images/iStockphoto Aboard a research vessel in the South ...

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 summaries below were drafted with the help of AI tools ...

Deep sea explorers want you to break out the "jazz hands" for this creature. On Nov. 4, the Schmidt Ocean Institute posted a video of one of its recent finds on Instagram. The nonprofit is dedicated ...