The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute team first spotted the "mystery mollusc" in 2000, about 8,500 feet below the ...

Roughly two decades ago, a group of scientists embarked to Tetepare, a remote island in the southwestern corner of the ...

The vast Pacific Ocean is home to countless islands and mysteries, but what if it once contained a full continent? Imagining ...

In Pacific Ocean trenches, scientists found creatures that expand the limits of where we know life can live on Earth.

In general, sea anemones are known to keep their tube-like bodies relatively vertical and are considered immobile, researchers said. “Some species have adapted the ability to swim for predator evasion ...

Given how underexplored the Pacific Ocean is, it is not surprising that new species are being discovered every time a manned or unmanned deep-water submersible is launched to document the species ...

Sick sea stars are lethargic, lose their arms and disintegrate into gooey masses. More than 90% of sunflower sea stars were ...

Scientists probing the bottom of the Pacific Ocean made a surprising discovery: animals living underneath the seafloor in an area with volcanic activity. Giant tubeworms, which are known as the ...

What started as a Stanford migration study of Loggerhead Sea Turtles has now uncovered new effects global warming has on the Pacific Ocean.

The arms of an underwater robot helped uncover communities of giant tube worms and snails living in volcanic caves beneath warm vents in the Pacific Ocean. “Animals are able to live beneath ...

When the Palisades fire raged and winds whipped ash and debris into the Pacific Ocean, scientists with the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration — already out in boats doing water-quality ...

Scaly sailors may have made a record-setting oceanic voyage. Tens of millions of years ago, iguanas in North America floated across the Pacific Ocean. Clinging to vegetation washed into the sea ...