Scientists at the University of Victoria (UVic) in British Columbia have made an alarming discovery: zombie worms are missing from B.C.’s ocean floor. These missing worms spell trouble, but not for ...

Once they knew that the zombie worms existed, scientists started looking for them more. Because they'd been found on bodies of dead animals at the bottom of the sea, they drug whale carcasses and ...

A scientific enclave at the southern tip of Chile has become the epicenter of a major biological revelation: the confirmation of at least thirty species previously unknown to science, collected from ...

In a scary movie, creatures that can’t always be seen often provide the biggest frights for characters and viewers alike. In deep-ocean research, the absence of one particular creature—the so-called ...

When ocean scientist Craig McClain sank a couple of dead alligators to the Gulf of Mexico’s cold, dark bottom, he knew they would probably attract tiny shrimp, bug-like isopods and other typical ...