The deep sea is home to weird and wonderful creatures that, over millions of years, have evolved specific traits to survive the extreme conditions of their habitat. These adaptations to their ...

We turn now to the ocean with NPR's Short Wave podcast. This story plays out in the midnight zone, which is 1,000 to 4,000 meters below the surface... (SOUNDBITE OF SUBMARINE MOVING) MA: ...Even ...

In the crushing darkness of the ocean floor, creatures evolve into giants, growing far larger than their shallow-water ...

Scientists have filmed a giant deep-sea spider crawling on the Southern Ocean floor, shedding more light on the diversity of underwater arachnids. Researchers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute noticed ...

The species with “deep-sea gigantism” was spotted off the remote South Sandwich Islands near Antarctica, researchers said. Getty Images/iStockphoto The summaries below were drafted with the help of AI ...