Scientists say the crustaceans have developed a visual system based on proteins that help them detect the little light that ...

An international team of marine biologists has documented the highest known count of deep-sea species living in methane seeps ...

Very few people make it to the deepest depths of the oceans, which is why new discoveries are constantly made about the exotic creatures that dwell in the deep blue sea. Although these next five ...

Deep-sea isopods found in markets and restaurants turned out to be a species new to science. Ng PKL, Sidabalok CM, Nguyen TS (2025) ZooKeys Along the coast of the South China Sea in Vietnam ...

Researchers studying crustaceans in Vietnam have identified a new "supergiant" sea bug species that bears a surprising resemblance to a classic movie villain. Deep-sea sea bugs, or the Bathynomus ...

the tendency of deep-sea animals to grow to a much larger size than similar species in shallower waters,” the Aquarium of the Pacific said in an explainer. The carnivorous marine isopods ...

Often multiple pounds in weight, the insect-like deep-sea animals are fished from far away islands before being distributed to markets and restaurants around the country in Southeast Asia.