Beds of Bathymodiolus mussels provide important habitat for other deep-sea critters, including sea stars, scaleworms and limpets. NOAA Ocean Exploration. The deep sea is the large ...

Deep-sea symbioses encompass a diverse array of partnerships between invertebrate animals and chemosynthetic bacteria that convert inorganic molecules into organic compounds. Such interactions are a ...

The creatures live in holes in wood at the bottom of the ocean. Wu Q, Lin Y-T, Qiu J-W, Xu MY, Xing BP (2025) Zoosystematics and Evolution When a tree falls into a river, flows downstream and hits the ...

In some areas, not a single patch of rock is visible because everything is so densely populated: deep-sea crabs (Shinkaia crosnieri) and deep-sea mussels (Bathymodiolus).

For all of humanity’s ventures to outer space, we’ve yet to see 99.999% of the deep-sea floor. In the latest subaquatic news, researchers discovered some 4,000 marine species, 88% of which were new ...

Scientists Discover “Ghostly” Jellyfish and 25 Possible New Species in Major Breakthrough ...

The deep sea is cold, dark and under immense pressure. Yet life has found a way to prevail there, in the form of some of Earth’s strangest creatures. Since deep-sea critters have adapted to near ...