Mystic, Connecticut isn’t just a place—it’s a time machine disguised as a coastal New England town, where the smell of saltwater taffy mingles with maritime history and the gentle lapping of ...

By Liz Kimbrough A transparent goby fish drifted through the darkness, its skeleton visible through paper-thin skin. Nearby, ...

The ocean is a mystical place. No one knows what's deep down in it. What creatures live there, what lost civilizations are at ...

Only a scattering of light penetrates the deep water, more than 300 feet beneath the ocean surface off the coast of Guam. It’s like twilight to the human eye, even in the middle of the day. This part ...

Scientists on California’s Central Coast recently spotted a giant, evasive seven-arm octopus while on a research expedition in Monterey Bay. The rare creature, called Haliphron atlanticus, was seen by ...

As temperatures drop below freezing across New England, an unlikely animal is also in need of a little warmth this winter. Mystic Aquarium said it recently received more than a dozen cold-stunned sea ...

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 ...

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Researchers have discovered 30 previously unknown deep-sea species in the remote ocean surrounding Antarctica, they announced last week—an achievement highlighting just how little humanity knows about ...

When Jonas Wüst first met rescue divers in Switzerland, what struck him wasn’t their courage, it was how much danger still defined their work. “We realized how outdated it all was,” he recalls.

Researchers are not even halfway through analyzing the thousands of samples collected from the Southern Ocean, but they've already discovered 30 new deep-sea creatures. Reading time 2 minutes The deep ...

Nestled underneath the Boston Seaport's ever-changing landscape of shops, offices and swanky restaurants is a science experiment. For the past year, scientists with the Stone Living Lab at UMass have ...