Two new worm species that no human had ever documented were found living inside a glass sponge on the deep ocean floor off Japan’s coast. The sponge itself — a translucent, me ...

Scientists aboard the JAMSTEC research vessel Yokosuka deployed the Shinkai 6500, a crewed submersible, to explore two understudied deep-sea regions: the Nankai Trough and the Shichiyo Seamount Chain.

On March 6, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) released a proposed rule that would amend its regulatory definition of shellfish by removing the phrase “having a shell” and expanding the ...

Partula snails all but vanished from Polynesia after the arrival of a carnivorous foreign snail. But a global alliance of zoos has worked to bring them back.