"May be to allow more effective exploitation of resources." Scientists stunned as deep-sea camera captures elusive creature ...

The ocean depths are home to a phantasmagoria of bizarre creatures, ranging from the footballfish ... Here, surely, is good circumstantial evidence for deep-sea angling." ...

This impressive size is attributed to abyssal gigantism, a phenomenon where deep-sea creatures become much larger than their shallow-water counterparts. Abyssal gigantism is particularly prevalent ...

"The fundamental, basic, first step in any understanding of an environment is knowing what the animals are, how many of them there are and how wide their distribution is," she told AFP. This would map ...

This is true from the start of the deep sea on the continental slope, where no sunlight can penetrate and no plants can grow, to the abyssal plains two miles down. The biodiversity of the sea ...