Giant phantom jelly sightings are extremely rare, but recent footage shows this extraordinary deep-sea jellyfish in all its ...

Eerie yet fascinating footage shows the 10-metre-long sea creature gently pulsing and swirling its way through the dark ...

Like a scene out of a Jules Verne novel, scientists from Schmidt Ocean Institute recently encountered a giant phantom jelly ...

Mining of the ocean floor for minerals could harm deep-sea jellyfish, according to the first study 1 of mining impacts on animals living in the water column. The study suggests that sediment stirred ...

Scientists say they have found a new species of Medusae — a type of free-swimming, umbrella-shaped jellyfish. The sea creature — which was first spotted in 2002 in a deep-sea volcanic structure in ...

A new species of jellyfish has been discovered deep below the waves, and it may possess venoms that we have never seen before. The new species, named Santjordia pagesi, was discovered at a depth of ...

Shipboard experiments suggested that sediment from the exploitation of metals in the ocean could be harmful to marine life. By Kate Golembiewski A treasure trove of metal is hiding at the bottom of ...

The deep sea is home to one of the largest animal communities on earth which is increasingly exposed to environmental pressures. However, our knowledge of its inhabitants and their response to ...

Researchers have mapped the distribution of a jellyfish subspecies and found that creatures which lack a distinctive "knob" are somehow prevented from leaving the Arctic. When you purchase through ...

A treasure trove of metal is hiding at the bottom of the ocean. Potato-size nodules of iron and manganese litter the seafloor, and metal-rich crusts cover underwater mountains and chimneys along ...