We’ve all heard of the world’s most massive sharks, both past and present. The megalodon, the great white shark, and the ...

In an experiment in the South China Sea, scientists dropped a cow carcass into the ocean to investigate what would happen and ...

Great white sharks are displaying unprecedented behaviours, and experts can’t explain why. One of the ocean’s greatest apex predators has been entering the twilight zone way beneath the surface of the ...

With eyes the size of dinner plates and arms that stretch over 13 metres, it lives far below the sunlight zone. Sightings are rare, but deep-sea cameras have occasionally caught glimpses of this ...

Scientists on the US West Coast say they discovered three previously unknown species of deep-sea spider that could have a rare diet fueled by a common greenhouse gas.

Over 20% of oceans have darkened, impacting marine life and ecosystems dependent on light for survival, according to a new study.

A three-foot-long Antarctic gonate squid was spotted swimming 7,000 feet below the surface of the Southern Ocean ...

Photic zone depths decreased by more than 50 meters across 32.4 million square kilometers (9% of global oceans) under sunlight conditions. The study found that 68.4 million square kilometers of ocean ...

For World Ocean's Day, we're taking a look at how human activity could be contributing to darker oceans, and what that may mean for marine life.

As we celebrate World Ocean Day, new research shows the role that the ocean twilight zone plays in keeping the planet healthy.

Almost all life in the ocean depends on the upper waters where sunlight filters in, known as the photic zone – but new research suggests this narrow window of valuable marine light is shrinking in ...

More than one-fifth of the ocean – over 46 million square miles – has gotten noticeably darker in the past two decades. This shift isn’t just about color; it signals a dramatic change in the ocean’s ...