Earth’s oceans cover more than 70 percent of our planet’s surface. That is a lot of room for species to exist, often without ...

Even though we’ve recorded tens of thousands of marine creatures over the decades and scientists are discovering new species ...

A tiny blue octopus species has been discovered nearly 6,000 feet below the ocean surface near the Galapagos Islands, and it’s absolutely adorable.

Dalhousiella yabukii, a newly identified polychaete worm, lives inside the glassy chambers of a deep-sea sponge off Japan.

Microeledone galapagensis, a tiny blue octopus, is new to science ...

Scientists are now describing more than 16,000 new species each year, the fastest sustained rate in history, according to recent studies. The surge spans animals, plants, fungi, and marine life, with ...

A newly identified deep-sea octopus discovered near the Galápagos Islands is challenging long-held assumptions about octopus ...

The third year of a global Ocean Census has revealed 1,121 potentially new-to-science marine species, including a worm that lives inside a “glass castle,” a ghost shark, and a carnivorous sponge. The ...

A small octopus living deep beneath the eastern Pacific has gone unnoticed for years in underwater footage and specimen ...