The ocean is full of mighty hunters. Two of the most feared are the shark and the orca (killer whale). Sharks are ancient, ...

A single research expedition in 2022 is helping scientists chart even more remarkable marine species across the ocean. Researchers have discovered two new deep-sea species—a lanternshark and a porcela ...

Scientists have recently classified two new species off the coast of Western Australia that are illuminating how little we actually know about life in the deep sea. The discoveries of a bioluminescent ...

Frilled sharks are usually found in the deep ocean, but this one popped up in waters off Japan in 2007. | Getty Images/GettyImages Whether or not they deserve their notorious reputation, sharks are a ...

This important study significantly advances our understanding of the skeleton of cartilaginous fishes by using a range of state of the art and complementary approaches to compare the skeleton amongst ...

Scientists in the Azores Islands, Portugal, dropped a baited underwater camera and let it sink thousands of feet down in the Atlantic Ocean. Later, they hauled it up and reviewed the footage. To their ...

This study presents valuable research comparing three different species of extant cartilaginous fishes and describes new data on ratfish. The methods are convincing, although there remains a concern ...

The ocean is no doubt our planet’s last great frontier, with deep sea flora and fauna still very much a mystery to humanity. But now researchers say that after 40 years of scouring the planet’s blue ...

Scientists in Albania have confirmed the first ever case of identical twins in small spotted catsharks. In February 2024, a commercial trawler operating from Vlorë, Albania, brought up 216 dead small ...

It was a mystery that began with an egg. In 1989, scientists in Australia found a curious kind of "mermaid's purse" – a leathery egg case, which some species of sharks lay instead of giving birth to ...