Two new worm species that no human had ever documented were found living inside a glass sponge on the deep ocean floor off Japan’s coast. The sponge itself — a translucent, me ...

A long-running debate about the Silverpit Crater beneath the North Sea has finally been resolved. Scientists now confirm it formed when a roughly 160-meter asteroid struck the seabed about 43–46 ...

Tommy Thompson found the S.S. Central America and its thousands of pounds of sunken treasure that sat at the bottom of the ...

The discoveries made in the Nankai Trough and the Shichiyo Seamount Chain remind us how little of our ocean has truly been explored.” ...

Divers descend into the cold waters of Puget Sound searching for a giant Pacific octopus. The rocky seabed is full of strange marine life, and at first the dive seems quiet. Then something moves in ...

This octopus can brood its eggs for nearly four years without eating. Here’s how this biological extreme has reshaped how ...

Cosima von Bonin fills Loewe’s Fall/Winter 2026 runway with plush sea creatures, turning the Paris Fashion Week show into a surreal kingdom.

As the tide falls on Zanzibar's western coast, 13-year-old Asha* moves across the reef, her gown flapping in knee-deep water.

Ringo Starr only wrote two songs for The Beatles, including 'Octopus's Garden', which was once described by his bandmate George Harrison as "really great".

By about 200 meters, light fades fast, and below 1,000 meters the sea is functionally dark, forcing life to solve survival with stranger tools than most surface creatures ever need. That is why so ...