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Scientists exploring one of Earth's least-understood ecosystems identified dozens of previously unknown species, including ...

Scientists say they’ve found more than 1,100 new marine species over the last year, emphasizing how unexplored the ocean really is.

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Imagine a shark so dark and soft-bodied it seems to dissolve into the blackness of the deep ocean. Or a fish with a rat-like tail, a plump nose and a big spine rising above its dorsal fin — a creature ...

When photographer Jialing Cai plunged into the ocean in the dead of night, she found creatures of the deep had risen up to ...

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Here’s a sentence you probably didn’t expect to read today: Thousands of strangers on the internet just collectively named a deep-sea creature that lives on sunken wood at the bottom of the ocean, and ...