Discover Magazine

The Rarest Ocean Animal and 6 Other Elusive Creatures That Mysteriously Lurk Below

What's the rarest ocean animal? Discover the rare and endangered ocean animals along with those that are rare because they're ...
SpaceNews

Scientists Release Images of Hydrothermal Vents Found in the Indian Ocean – Images reveal array of animals, black smokers

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The Hill

Ocean economic boom threatens many potentially conscious species

Rising human exploitation of the oceans is pushing ever further into regions that scientists increasingly suspect are full of conscious life. New research into creatures from sperm whales to octopuses ...
Live Science

Scaly-foot snail: The armor-plated hermaphrodite with a giant heart that lives near scalding deep-sea volcanoes and never eats

What it eats: As an adult, it doesn't! All of the snail's nutrition is generated internally, by endosymbiotic bacteria — microbes that live in the snail's gut. The scaly-foot snail, or volcano snail, ...
Phys.org

How the Red Sea went completely dry before being flooded by the Indian Ocean over 6 million years ago

Scientists at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) have provided conclusive evidence that the Red Sea completely dried out about 6.2 million years ago, before being suddenly ...