Photograper Julio A. Díaz. The new discoveries will increase the ecological importance of the Mallorca channel seamounts and the littoral caves, providing compelling arguments for the Spanish ...

Banded sand catsharks are nocturnal and demersal, meaning they live on the sea floor. They eat small fish and invertebrates and have snakelike bodies that are good for wriggling into sponges. "We ...

The Ocean Census project says scientists have discovered 1,121 previously unknown species in a single year. The rush is on to ...

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 underwater mountains of the northwest Pacific are ...

Marine biologists have discovered a dozen new species of sea sponges at the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary off California. Thomas Turner They were practically hiding in plain sight. Marine ...

Learn how the Ocean Census discovered 1,121 new marine species, from deep-sea “ghost sharks” to carnivorous sponges, while ...

Dalhousiella yabukii, a newly identified polychaete worm, lives inside the glassy chambers of a deep-sea sponge off Japan.

SINGAPORE – Carnivorous sponges and a worm smaller than a paperclip that could potentially treat neurodegenerative diseases ...